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Thomas Hardy - Starlings On The Roof
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`No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot,
The people who lived here have left the spot,
And others are coming who knew them not.


`If you listen anon, with an ear intent,
The voices, you`ll find, will be different
From the well-known ones of those who went.`


`Why did they go? Their tones so bland
Were quite familiar to our band;
The comers we shall not understand.`


`They look for a new life, rich and strange;
They do not know that, let them range
Wherever they may, they will get no change.


`They will drag their house-gear ever so far
Their search for a home no miseries mar;
They will find that as they were they are,


`That every hearth has a ghost, alack,
And can be but the scene of a bivouac
Till they move perforce — no time to pack!`
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