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Sir John was entombed and the crypt was closed and she	A
Like a soul that could meet no more the sight of the sun	B
Inclined her in weepings and prayings continually	A
As his widowed one	B
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And to pleasure her in her sorrow and fix his name	C
As a memory Time's fierce frost should never kill	D
She caused to be richly chased a brass to his fame	C
Which should link them still	D
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For she bonded her name with his own on the brazen page	E
As if dead and interred there with him and cold and numb	F
Omitting the day of her dying and year of her age	E
Till her end should come	F
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And implored good people to pray Of their Charytie	G
For these twaine Soules yea she who did last remain	H
Forgoing Heaven's bliss if ever with spouse should she	A
Again have lain	H
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Even there as it first was set you may see it now	I
Writ in quaint Church text with the date of her death left bare	J
In the aged Estminster aisle where the folk yet bow	I
Themselves in prayer	J
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Thereafter some years slid till there came a day	G
When it slowly began to be marked of the standers by	K
That she would regard the brass and would bend away	G
With a drooping sigh	K
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Now the lady was fair as any the eye might scan	L
Through a summer day of roving a type at whose lip	M
Despite her maturing seasons no meet man	L
Would be loth to sip	M
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And her heart was stirred with a lightning love to its pith	N
For a newcomer who while less in years was one	B
Full eager and able to make her his own forthwith	N
Restrained of none	B
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But she answered Nay death white and still as he urged	G
She adversely spake overmuch as she loved the while	O
Till he pressed for why and she led with the face of one scourged	G
To the neighbouring aisle	O
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And showed him the words ever gleaming upon her pew	P
Memorizing her there as the knight's eternal wife	Q
Or falsing such debarred inheritance due	P
Of celestial life	Q
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He blenched and reproached her that one yet undeceased	P
Should bury her future that future which none can spell	R
And she wept and purposed anon to inquire of the priest	P
If the price were hell	R
	-
Of her wedding in face of the record Her lover agreed	P
And they parted before the brass with a shudderful kiss	S
For it seemed to flash out on their impulse of passionate need	P
Mock ye not this	S
	-
Well the priest whom more perceptions moved than one	B
Said she erred at the first to have written as if she were dead	P
Her name and adjuration but since it was done	B
Nought could be said	P
	-
Save that she must abide by the pledge for the peace of her soul	T
And so by her life maintain the apostrophe good	P
If she wished anon to reach the coveted goal	T
Of beatitude	P
	-
To erase from the consecrate text her prayer as there prayed	P
Would aver that since earth's joys most drew her past doubt	P
Friends' prayers for her joy above by Jesu's aid	P
Could be done without	P
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Moreover she thought of the laughter the shrug the jibe	U
That would rise at her back in the nave when she should pass	V
As another's avowed by the words she had chosen to inscribe	U
On the changeless brass	V
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And so for months she replied to her Love No no	W
While sorrow was gnawing her beauties ever and more	X
Till he long suffering and weary grew to show	W
Less warmth than before	X
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And after an absence wrote words absolute	P
That he gave her till Midsummer morn to make her mind clear	Y
And that if by then she had not said Yea to his suit	P
He should wed elsewhere	J
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Thence on at unwonted times through the lengthening days	Z
She was seen in the church at dawn or when the sun dipt	P
And the moon rose standing with hands joined blank of gaze	Z
Before the script	P
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She thinned as he came not shrank like a creature that cowers	Z
As summer drew nearer but still had not promised to wed	P
When just at the zenith of June in the still night hours	Z
She was missed from her bed	P
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The church they whispered with qualms where often she sits	Z
They found her facing the brass there else seeing none	B
But feeling the words with her finger gibbering in fits	Z
And she knew them not one	B
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And so she remained in her handmaids' charge late soon	A2
Tracing words in the air with her finger as seen that night	P
Those incised on the brass till at length unwatched one noon	A2
She vanished from sight	P
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And as talebearers tell thence on to her last taken breath	B2
Was unseen save as wraith that in front of the brass made moan	C2
So that ever the way of her life and the time of her death	B2
Remained unknown	C2
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And hence as indited above you may read even now	I
The quaint church text with the date of her death left bare	J
In the aged Estminster aisle where folk yet bow	I
Themselves in prayer	J
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October	D2

Thomas Hardy

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