Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEVENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY, by THOMAS HARDY



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First Line: Here goes a man of seventy-four
Last Line: What earth's ingrained conditions are.
Subject(s): Old Age


HERE goes a man of seventy-four,
Who sees not what life means for him,
And here another in years a score
Who reads its very figure and trim.

The one who shall walk to-day with me
Is not the youth who gazes far,
But the breezy sire who cannot see
What Earth's ingrained conditions are.





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