In years defaced lyrics
by Thomas Hardy
In years defaced and lost
Two sat here, transport-tossed
Lit by a living love
The wilted world knew nothing of:
Scared momently
By gain-givings
Then hoping things
That could not be
Of love and us no trace
Abides upon the place;
The sun and shadows wheel
Season and season sereward steal:
Foul days and fair
Here, too, prevail
And gust and gale
As everywhere...
But lonely shepherd souls
Who bask amid these knolls
May catch a faery sound
On sleepy noon-tides from the ground:
"O not again
Till Earth outwears
Shall lovе like theirs
Suffuse this glеn!"