Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
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And much I hope my movements here
Mistress, I dug upon your grave
My enemy? — prodding sly?
To equal among human kind
That shuts on all flesh soon or late,
Her spirit from Death's gin.
Ah, are you digging on my grave,
Then, who is digging on my grave?
What good will planting flowers produce?
I am sorry, but I quite forgot
One of the brightest wealth has bred.
Say — since I have not guessed!
Then who is digging on my grave,
She thought you no more worth her hate,
To bury a bone, in case
— "Ah, no: they sit and think, 'What use!
And cares not where you lie.
A dog's fidelity!
When passing on my daily trot.
— "Nay: when she heard you had passed the Gate
That I should not be true.
Your little dog , who still lives near,
Have not disturbed your rest?
What feeling do we ever find
— "No: yesterday he went to wed
Ah yes! You dig upon my grave…
— "O it is I, my mistress dear,
Why flashed it not to me
It cannot hurt her now,' he said,
My loved one? — planting rue?
I should be hungry near this spot
My nearest dearest kin?
It was your resting place.
No tendance of her mound can loose
But someone digs upon my grave?
That one true heart was left behind!
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