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AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 3. AFTER THE CLUB-DANCE by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: BLACK'ON FROWNS EAST ON MAIDON
Last Line: THEY, TOO, HAVE DONE THE SAME!
Subject(s): FESTIVALS; FAIRS; PAGEANTS;

BLACK' ON frowns east on Maidon,
And westward to the sea,
But on neither is his frown laden
With scorn, as his frown on me!

At dawn my heart grew heavy,
I could not sip the wine,
I left the jocund bevy
And that young man o' mine.

The roadside elms pass by me, -
Why do I sink with shame
When the birds a-perch there eye me?
They, too, have done the same!



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