Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WEDDING MORNING, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: Tabitha dressed for her wedding
Last Line: "she can have him. I shall not mourn!"
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TABITHA dressed for her wedding: --
"Tabby, why look so sad?"
"-- O I feel a great gloominess spreading, spreading,
Instead of supremely glad!. . .

"I called on Carry last night,
And he came whilst I was there,
Not knowing I'd called. So I kept out of sight,
And I heard what he said to her:

"'-- Ah, I'd far liefer marry
You, Dear, to-morrow!' he said,
'But that cannot be.' -- O I'd give him to Carry,
And willingly see them wed,

"But how can I do it when
His baby will soon be born?
After that I hope I may die. And then
She can have him. I shall not mourn!"





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