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THE DISCOVERY by THOMAS HARDY

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First Line: I WANDERED TO A CRUDE COAST
Last Line: WHERE I BURST ON HER MY HEART COULD NOT BUT FOLLOW.
I WANDERED to a crude coast
Like a ghost;
Upon the hills I saw fires -
Funeral pyres
Seemingly - and heard breaking
Waves like distant cannonades that set the land shaking.

And so I never once guessed
A Love-nest,
Bowered and candle-lit, lay
In my way,
Till I found a hid hollow,
Where I burst on her my heart could not but follow.



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