Time & Brevity
The New Toy
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
Time & Brevity
She cannot leave it alone,
The new toy;
She pats it, smooths it, rights it, to show it’s her own,
As the other train-passengers muse on its temper and tone,
Till she draws from it cries of annoy: —
She feigns to appear as if thinking it nothing so rare
Or worthy of pride, to achieve
This wonder a child, though with reason the rest of them there
May so be inclined to believe.
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Hardy, Thomas. “The New Toy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/566/.
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Hardy, Thomas. “The New Toy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/566/.
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