Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RIFT, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: Twas just at gnat and cob-web time
Last Line: And cobweb-time.


'TWAS just at gnat and cobweb-time,
When yellow begins to show in the leaf,
That your old gamut changed its chime
From those true tones -- of span so brief! --
That met my beats of joy, of grief,
As rhyme meets rhyme.

So sank I from my high sublime!
We faced but chancewise after that,
And never I knew or guessed my crime. . . .
Yes; 'twas the date -- or nigh thereat --
Of the yellowing leaf; at moth and gnat
And cobweb-time.





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