The Self-Unseeing

Thomas Hardy

1840 to 1928

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Yet we were looking away!
Footworn and hollowed and thin, 
She sat here in her chair, 
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Smiling into the fire; 
Bowing it higher and higher.
He who played stood there,
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Where the dead feet walked in.
Here was the former door 
Here is the ancient floor, 
Childlike, I danced in a dream;