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AN EXPERIENCE by THOMAS HARDY

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First Line: WIT, WEIGHT, OR WEALTH THERE WAS NOT
Last Line: WAS NEVER TO FORGET!

WIT, weight, or wealth there was not
In anything that was said,
In anything that was done;
All was of scope to cause not
A triumph, dazzle, or dread
To even the subtlest one,
My friend,
To even the subtlest one.

But there was a new afflation --
An aura zephyring round
That care infected not:
It came as a salutation,
And, in my sweet astound,
I scarcely witted what
Might pend,
I scarcely witted what.

The hills in samewise to me
Spoke, as they grayly gazed,
-- First hills to speak so yet!
The thin-edged breezes blew me
What I, though cobwebbed, crazed.
Was never to forget,
My friend,
Was never to forget!



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