Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MISSED TRAIN, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: How I was caught / hieing home, after days of allure
Last Line: Then in me: now in these.


How I was caught
Hieing home, after days of allure,
And forced to an inn -- small, obscure --
At the junction, gloom-fraught.

How civil my face
To get them to chamber me there --
A roof I had scorned, scarce aware
That it stood at the place.

And how all the night
I had dreams of the unwitting cause
Of my lodgment. How lonely I was
How consoled by her sprite!

Thus onetime to me. . .
Dim wastes of dead years bar away
Then from now. But such happenings to-day
Fall to lovers, may be!

Years, years as shoaled seas,
Truly, stretch now between! Less and less
Shrink the visions then vast in me. -- Yes,
Then in me: Now in these.





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