Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO OUTER NATURE, by THOMAS HARDY



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First Line: Show thee as I thought thee
Last Line: Passed the hodiernal!


SHOW thee as I thought thee
When I early sought thee,
Omen-scouting,
All undoubting
Love alone had wrought thee --

Wrought thee for my pleasure,
Planned thee as a measure
For expounding
And resounding
Glad things that men treasure.

O for but a moment
Of that old endowment --
Light to gaily
See thy daily
Irised embowment!

But such readorning
Time forbids with scorning --
Makes me see things
Cease to be things
They were in my morning.

Fad'st thou, glow-forsaken,
Darkness-overtaken!
Thy first sweetness,
Radiance, meetness,
None shall reawaken.

Why not sempiternal
Thou and I? Our vernal
Brightness keeping,
Time outleaping;
Passed the hodiernal!






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