The Background And The Figure

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Title:     The Background And The Figure
Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy]

(Lover's Ditty)

 

I think of the slope where the rabbits fed,
Of the periwinks' rockwork lair,
Of the fuchsias ringing their bells of red -
And the something else seen there.

Between the blooms where the sod basked bright,
By the bobbing fuchsia trees,
Was another and yet more eyesome sight -
The sight that richened these.

I shall seek those beauties in the spring,
When the days are fit and fair,
But only as foils to the one more thing
That also will flower there!

[The end]
Thomas Hardy's poem: Background And The Figure

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