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THE FAITHFUL SWALLOW by THOMAS HARDY

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First Line: WHEN SUMMER SHONE
Last Line: TOO LATE TO GO!

WHEN summer shone
Its sweetest on
An August day,
"Here evermore,"
I said, "I'll stay;
Not go away
To another shore
As fickle they!"

December came:
'Twas not the same!
I did not know
Fidelity
Would serve me so.
Frost, hunger, snow;
And now, ah me,
Too late to go!



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