A Wife in London
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
Track 1
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Tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker,
Fresh—firm—penned in highest feather—
Like a waning taper
Though shaped so shortly:
Flashed news in her hand
His hand, whom the worm now knows:
The postman nears and goes:
A messenger's knock cracks smartly,
She sits in the tawny vapour
Behind whose webby fold-on-fold
Of meaning it dazes to understand
December 1899
The street-lamp glimmers cold.
By the firelight flicker
That the Thames-side lanes have uprolled,
Page-full of his hoped return,
A letter is brought whose lines disclose
He—he has fallen—in the far South Land…
And of new love that they would learn.
In the summer weather,
And of home-planned jaunts of brake and burn
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