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EXEUNT OMNES by THOMAS HARDY

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First Line: EVERYBODY ELSE, THEN, GOING
Last Line: SOON ONE MORE GOES THITHER!
I

EVERYBODY else, then, going,
And I still left where the fair was? ...
Much have I seen of neighbour loungers
Making a lusty showing,
Each now past all knowing.

II

There is an air of blankness
In the street and the littered spaces;
Thoroughfare, steeple, bridge and highway
Wizen themselves to lankness;
Kennels dribble dankness.

III

Folk all fade. And whither,
As I wait alone where the fair was?
Into the clammy and numbing night-fog
Whence they entered hither.
Soon one more goes thither!




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