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The Wedding Morning

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Title:     The Wedding Morning
Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy]

Tabitha dressed for her wedding:-
"Tabby, why look so sad?"
"--O I feel a great gloominess spreading, spreading,
Instead of supremely glad! . . .

"I called on Carry last night,
And he came whilst I was there,
Not knowing I'd called. So I kept out of sight,
And I heard what he said to her:

"'--Ah, I'd far liefer marry
YOU, Dear, to-morrow!' he said,
'But that cannot be.'--O I'd give him to Carry,
And willingly see them wed,

"But how can I do it when
His baby will soon be born?
After that I hope I may die. And then
She can have him. I shall not mourn!'


-THE END-
Thomas Hardy's poem: The Wedding Morning

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