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Satires of Circumstance

by Thomas Hardy

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The Discovery

I wandered to a crude coast
      Like a ghost;
   Upon the hills I saw fires—
      Funeral pyres
   Seemingly—and heard breaking
Waves like distant cannonades that set the land shaking.

And so I never once guessed
      A Love-nest,
   Bowered and candle-lit, lay
      In my way,
   Till I found a hid hollow,
Where I burst on her my heart could not but follow.

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