Time & Brevity
The Faithful Swallow
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
Time & Brevity
When summer shone
Its sweetest on
An August day,
“Here evermore,”
I said, “I’ll stay;
Not go away
To another shore
As fickle they!”
December came:
’Twas not the same!
I did not know
Fidelity
Would serve me so.
Frost, hunger, snow;
And now, ah me,
Too late to go!
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MLA
Hardy, Thomas. “The Faithful Swallow.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/580/.
Chicago
Hardy, Thomas. “The Faithful Swallow.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/580/.
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