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Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) The Whitewashed Wall Why does she turn in that shy soft way Whenever she stirs the fire, And kiss to the chimney-corner wall, As if entranced to admire Its whitewashed bareness more than the sight Of a rose in richest green? I have known her long, but this raptured rite I never before have seen. – Well, once when her son cast his shadow there, A friend took a pencil and drew him Upon that flame-lit wall. And the lines Had a lifelike semblance to him. And there long stayed his familiar look; But one day, ere she knew, The whitener came to cleanse the nook, And covered the face from view. ‘Yes,’ he said: ‘My brush goes on with a rush, And the draught is buried under; When you have to whiten old cots and brighten, What else can you do, I wonder?’ But she knows he’s there. And when she yearns For him, deep in the labouring night, She sees him as close at hand, and turns To him under his sheet of white. Thomas Hardy's other poems: Распечатать (Print) Количество обращений к стихотворению: 1478 |
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