Nature
The Garden Seat
From Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses
Nature
ITS former green is blue and thin,
And its once firm legs sink in and in;
Soon it will break down unaware,
Soon it will break down unaware.
At night when reddest flowers are black
Those who once sat thereon come back;
Quite a row of them sitting there,
Quite a row of them sitting there.
With them the seat does not break down,
Nor winter freeze them, nor floods drown,
For they are as light as upper air,
They are as light as upper air!
Cite this poem
MLA
Hardy, Thomas. “The Garden Seat.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/409/.
Chicago
Hardy, Thomas. “The Garden Seat.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/409/.
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