THOMAS HARDY 1840-1928

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THE FAITHFUL SWALLOW

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!

Although Thomas Hardy is better known as a novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, etc.) he himself claimed he was first and foremost a poet.

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