Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BACKGROUND AND THE FIGURE, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: I think of the slope where the rabbits fed
Last Line: That also will flower there!


(Lover's Ditty)

I THINK of the slope where the rabbits fed,
Of the periwinks' rockwork lair,
Of the fuchsias ringing their bells of red -
And the something else seen there.

Between the blooms where the sod basked bright,
By the bobbing fuchsia trees,
Was another and yet more eyesome sight -
The sight that richened these.

I shall seek those beauties in the spring,
When the days are fit and fair,
But only as foils to the one more thing
That also will flower there!





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