it's very detached but fairly lovely
KS
On 18/12/2007, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Self-Unseeing
>
> By Thomas Hardy
>
>
> Here is the ancient floor,
> Footworn and hollowed and thin,
> Here was the former door
> Where the dead feet walked in.
>
> She sat here in her chair,
> Smiling into the fire;
> He who played stood there,
> Bowing it higher and higher.
>
> Childlike, I danced in a dream;
> Blessings emblazoned that day
> Everything glowed with a gleam;
> Yet we were looking away!
>
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