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