At An Inn
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
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When we as strangers sought
Their catering care,
Veiled smiles bespoke their thought
Of what we were.
They warmed as they opined
Us more ______ friends—
That we had all resigned
For love's dear ends.
And that swift sympathy
With ______ love
Which quicks the world—maybe
The spheres above,
Made them our ministers,
Moved them to say,
"Ah, God, that bliss like theirs
Would ______ our day!"
And we were left alone
As Love's own pair;
Yet never the love-light ______
Between us there!
But that which chilled ______ breath
Of afternoon,
And palsied unto death
The pane-fly's tune.
The kiss their zeal foretold,
And now deemed come,
Came not: within his ______
Love lingered numb.
Why cast he on ______ port
A bloom not ours?
Why shaped ______ for his sport
In after-hours?
As we ______ we were not
That day afar,
And ______ we seem not what
We aching are.
______ severing sea and land,
O laws of men,
Ere death, once let us stand
As we ______ then!