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Thomas Hardy - To Outer NatureThomas Hardy - To Outer Nature
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SHOW thee as I thought thee     When I early sought thee,       Omen-scouting,       All undoubting     Love alone had wrought thee—     Wrought thee for my pleasure,     Planned thee as a measure       For expounding       And resounding     Glad things that men treasure.     O for but a moment     Of that old endowment—       Light to gaily       See thy daily     Irisèd embowment!     But such readorning     Time forbids with scorning—       Makes me see things       Cease to be things     They were in my morning.     Fad`st thou, glow-forsaken,     Darkness-overtaken!       Thy first sweetness,       Radiance, meetness,     None shall reawaken.     Why not sempiternal     Thou and I? Our vernal       Brightness keeping,       Time outleaping;     Passed the hodiernal!
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