Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEFORE KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: When I walked roseless tracks and wide
Last Line: And I heard no call!


WHEN I walked roseless tracks and wide,
Ere dawned your date for meeting me,
O why did you not cry Halloo
Across the stretch between, and say:

'We move, while years as yet divide,
On closing lines which - though it be
You know me not nor I know you -
Will intersect and join some day!'

Then well I had borne
Each scraping thorn;
But the winters froze,
And grew no rose;

No bridge bestrode
The gap at all;
No shape you showed,
And I heard no call!





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