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Thomas Hardy - At Lulworth Cove A Century Back
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Had I but lived a hundred years ago
   I might have gone, as I have gone this year,
   By Warmwell Cross on to a Cove I know,
   And Time have placed his finger on me there:
   "You see that man?" — I might have looked, and said,
   "O yes: I see him. One that boat has brought
   Which dropped down Channel round Saint Alban`s Head.
   So commonplace a youth calls not my thought."
   "You see that man?" — "Why yes; I told you; yes:
  Of an idling town-sort; thin; hair brown in hue;
  And as the evening light scants less and less
  He looks up at a star, as many do."

  "You see that man?" — "Nay, leave me!" then I plead,
  "I have fifteen miles to vamp across the lea,
  And it grows dark, and I am weary-kneed:
  I have said the third time; yes, that man I see!"

  "Good. That man goes to Rome — to death, despair;
  And no one notes him now but you and I:
  A hundred years, and the world will follow him there,
  And bend with reverence where his ashes lie."
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