The Voice
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
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Woman much missed, how you call to me, call ______ me,
Saying that now you are not as you ______
When you had changed from the one who was ______ to me,
But as at first, when our day ______ fair.
Can it be you that I hear? Let ______ view you, then,
Standing as when I drew near ______ the town
Where you would wait for me: yes, ______ I knew you then,
Even to the original air-blue gown!
Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness
______ across the wet mead to me here,
You being ______ dissolved to wan wistlessness,
Heard no more again far ______ near?
Thus I; faltering forward,
Leaves around me falling,
______ oozing thin through the thorn from norward,
And the ______ calling.