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Poem by Thomas Hardy


Seventy-Four and Twenty


Here goes a man of seventy-four,
Who sees not what life means for him,
And here another in years a score
Who reads its very figure and trim.

The one who shall walk to-day with me
Is not the youth who gazes far,
But the breezy sire who cannot see
What Earth’s ingrained conditions are.



Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. To Carrey Clavel
  2. The Vampirine Fair
  3. O I Won’t Lead a Homely Life
  4. When Dead
  5. The Fight on Durnover Moor


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