Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди))

He Did Not Know Me

   (Woman’s Sorrow Song)

He said: ‘I do not know you;
You are not she who came
And made my heart grow tame?’
I laughed: ‘The same!’

Still said he: ‘I don’t know you.’
‘But I am your Love!’ laughed I:
‘Yours – faithful ever – till I die,
And pulseless lie!’

Yet he said: ‘I don’t know you.’
Freakful, I went away,
And met pale Time, with ‘Pray,
What means his Nay?’

Said Time: ‘He does not know you
In your mask of Comedy.’
‘But,’ said I, ‘that I have chosen to be:
Tragedy he.’

‘True; hence he did not know you.’
‘But him I could recognize?’
‘Yea. Tragedy is true guise,
Comedy lies.’

1. The End of the Episode
2. Burning the Holly
3. The Second Visit
4. On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born
5. The Three Tall Men

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