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Here alone by the logs in my chamber	A
Deserted decrepit	B
Spent flames limning ghosts on the wainscot	B
Of friends I once knew	C
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My drama and hers begins weirdly	D
Its dumb re enactment	B
Each scene sigh and circumstance passing	E
In spectral review	C
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Wealth was mine beyond wish when I met her	A
The pride of the lowland	B
Embowered in Tintinhull Valley	D
By laurel and yew	C
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And love lit my soul notwithstanding	E
My features' ill favour	A
Too obvious beside her perfections	F
Of line and of hue	C
	-
But it pleased her to play on my passion	G
And whet me to pleadings	F
That won from her mirthful negations	F
And scornings undue	C
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Then I fled her disdains and derisions	F
To cities of pleasure	A
And made me the crony of idlers	F
In every purlieu	D
	-
Of those who lent ear to my story	A
A needy Adonis	F
Gave hint how to grizzle her garden	G
From roses to rue	C
	-
Could his price but be paid for so purging	E
My scorner of scornings	F
Thus tempted the lust to avenge me	A
Germed inly and grew	C
	-
I clothed him in sumptuous apparel	D
Consigned to him coursers	F
Meet equipage liveried attendants	F
In full retinue	C
	-
So dowered with letters of credit	B
He wayfared to England	B
And spied out the manor she goddessed	B
And handy thereto	B
	-
Set to hire him a tenantless mansion	G
As coign stone of vantage	H
For testing what gross adulation	G
Of beauty could do	B
	-
He laboured through mornings and evens	F
On new moons and sabbaths	F
By wiles to enmesh her attention	G
In park path and pew	B
	-
And having afar played upon her	A
Advanced his lines nearer	A
And boldly outleaping conventions	F
Bent briskly to woo	B
	-
His gay godlike face his rare seeming	E
Anon worked to win her	A
And later at noontides and night tides	F
They held rendezvous	B
	-
His tarriance full spent he departed	B
And met me in Venice	F
And lines from her told that my jilter	A
Was stooping to sue	B
	-
Not long could be further concealment	B
She pled to him humbly	A
By our love and our sin O protect me	A
I fly unto you	B
	-
A mighty remorse overgat me	A
I heard her low anguish	I
And there in the gloom of the calle	D
My steel ran him through	B
	-
A swift push engulphed his hot carrion	G
Within the canal there	A
That still street of waters dividing	E
The city in two	B
	-
I wandered awhile all unable	D
To smother my torment	B
My brain racked by yells as from Tophet	B
Of Satan's whole crew	B
	-
A month of unrest brought me hovering	E
At home in her precincts	F
To whose hiding hole local story	A
Afforded a clue	B
	-
Exposed and expelled by her people	D
Afar off in London	G
I found her alone in a sombre	A
And soul stifling mew	B
	-
Still burning to make reparation	G
I pleaded to wive her	A
And father her child and thus faintly	A
My mischief undo	B
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She yielded and spells of calm weather	A
Succeeded the tempest	B
And one sprung of him stood as scion	G
Of my bone and thew	B
	-
But Time unveils sorrows and secrets	F
And so it befell now	J
By inches the curtain was twitched at	B
And slowly undrew	A
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As we lay she and I in the night time	K
We heard the boy moaning	E
O misery mine My false father	A
Has murdered my true	A
	-
She gasped yea she heard understood it	B
Next day the child fled us	F
And nevermore sighted was even	L
A print of his shoe	A
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Thenceforward she shunned me and languished	B
Till one day the park pool	D
Embraced her fair form and extinguished	B
Her eyes' living blue	A
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So ask not what blast may account for	A
This aspect of pallor	A
These bones that just prison within them	M
Life's poor residue	A
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But pass by and leave unregarded	A
A Cain to his suffering	E
For vengeance too dark on the woman	G
Whose lover he slew	A

Thomas Hardy

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