When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

Thomas HardyThomas Hardy

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When I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there
No prophet durst declare,
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there.When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,
All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless,
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes!
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy

1840 - 1928/Male/EnglishA novelist and poet, Hardy wrote of tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.

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