Nature

XII

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Poems of the Past and the Present

Nature

Well: Here at morn they’ll light on one
Dangling in mockery
Of what he spent his substance on
Blindly and uselessly! . . .
“He might,” they’ll say,
“Have built, some way.
A cheaper gallows-tree!”

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