Death & Dying

XIV

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

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Death & Dying

The rest is naught . . . We buried her o’ Sunday. Neighbours carried
her;
And Swetman—he who’d married her—now miserablest of men,
Walked mourning first; and then walked John; just quivering, but
composed anon;
And we the quire formed round the grave, as was the custom then.

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