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Written in the shadow of Emma Hardy's death - this version includes and adapts some lines from 'The Going', a longer poem by Thomas Hardy about Emma's death - 'why do you make me leave the house? ...'

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Something tapped on the pane of my room
When there was never a trace
Of wind or rain, and I saw in the gloom
My weary Belovèd's face.

"O I am tired of waiting," she said,
"Night, morn, noon, afternoon;
So cold it is in my lonely bed,
And I thought you would join me soon!"

I rose and neared the window-glass,
But vanished thence had she:
Only a pallid moth, alas,
Tapped at the pane for me.

bridge (adapted from The Going)

Why do you make me leave the house
And think for a breath it’s you I see?
At the end of the aisle of crimson trees
Where often in the twilight you would be.

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from Neutral Tones : Song Settings of the Poetry of Thomas Hardy, released February 9, 2020

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Gordon Thompson Melbourne, Australia

Gordon lives in Melbourne and is the publisher at Clouds of Magellan Press, and publisher of 'Bent Street: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas'. He has four children (at last count) with Petrina, also one dog (Shep) and 6 goldfish (Papa Jo and the Sylvesters) ... more

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