The Last Time

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Title:     The Last Time
Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy]

The kiss had been given and taken,
And gathered to many past:
It never could reawaken;
But you heard none say: "It's the last!"

The clock showed the hour and the minute,
But you did not turn and look:
You read no finis in it,
As at closing of a book.

But you read it all too rightly
When, at a time anon,
A figure lay stretched out whitely,
And you stood looking thereon.

-THE END-
Thomas Hardy's poem: The Last Time

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