Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
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They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
The meaning of the broad Karoo,
And foreign constellations west
Each night above his mound.
Will Hodge for ever be;
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
Yet portion of that unknown plain
And why uprose to nightly view
The Bush, the dusty loam,
His homely Northern breast and brain
Strange stars amid the gloam.
That breaks the veldt around:
Young Hodge the drummer never knew --
Uncoffined -- just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
Fresh from his Wessex home --
His stars eternally.