When I Set Out for Lyonnesse

Thomas Hardy

1840 to 1928

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When I came back from Lyonnesse 
When I set out for Lyonnesse 
No prophet durst declare, 
With magic in my eyes!
What would bechance at Lyonnesse 
When I set out for Lyonnesse, 
A hundred miles away. 
While I should sojourn there 
When I came back from Lyonnesse 
A hundred miles away, 
What would bechance at Lyonnesse 
With magic in my eyes, 
While I should sojourn there. 
And starlight lit my lonesomeness 
All marked with mute surmise 
My radiance rare and fathomless, 
The rime was on the spray, 
Nor did the wisest wizard guess