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IN THE GARDEN by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WE WAITED FOR THE SUN
Last Line: SOONEST HAD TO GO.
Subject(s): GARDENS & GARDENING;
(M.H.)

WE waited for the sun
To break its cloudy prison
(For day was not yet done,
And night still unbegun)
Leaning by the dial.

After many a trial -
We all silent there -
It burst as new-arisen,
Throwing a shade to where
Time travelled at that minute.

Little saw we in it,
But this much I know,
Of lookers on that shade,
Her towards whom it made
Soonest had to go.



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