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Thomas Hardy - Read By Moonlight
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I paused to read a letter of hers
By the moon`s cold shine,
Eyeing it in the tenderest way,
And edging it up to catch each ray
Upon her light-penned line.
I did not know what years would flow
Of her life`s span and mine
Ere I read another letter of hers
By the moon`s cold shine!

I chance now on the last of hers,
By the moon`s cold shine;
It is the one remaining page
Out of the many shallow and sage
Whereto she set her sign.
Who could foresee there were to be
Such letters of pain and pine
Ere I should read this last of hers
By the moon`s cold shine!
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