Nature
XVI
From Poems of the Past and the Present
Nature
And the spirits of those who were homing
Passed on, rushingly,
Like the Pentecost Wind;
And the whirr of their wayfaring thinned
And surceased on the sky, and but left in the gloaming
Sea-mutterings and me.
December 1899.
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Hardy, Thomas. “XVI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/211/.
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