Poem by Thomas Hardy

A Necessitarian’s Epitaph

A world I did not wish to enter
Took me and poised me on my centre,
Made me grimace, and foot, and prance,
As cats on hot bricks have to dance
Strange jigs to keep them from the floor,
Till they sink down and feel no more.

1. The Orphaned Old Maid
2. Music in a Snowy Street
3. Silences
4. Nothing Matters Much
5. The Bad Example

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