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THE SUN ON THE LETTER by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: I DREW THE LETTER OUT, WHILE GLEAMED
Last Line: EXPRESSED WITH THEIR OWN ARDENCY!
Subject(s): LETTERS;
I DREW the letter out, while gleamed
The sloping sun from under a roof
Of cloud whose verge rose visibly.

The burning ball fung rays that seemed
Stretched like a warp without a woof
Across the levels of the lea

To where I stood, and where they beamed
As brightly on the page of proof
That she had shown her false to me

As if it had shown her true - had teemed
With passionate thought for my behoof
Expressed with their own ardency!



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