Neutral Tones
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
Track 1
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And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And some words played between us to and fro
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,
Like an ominous bird a-wing -.
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
- They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
We stood by a pond that winter day,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
On which lost the more by our love.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles of years ago;
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