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1840–1928

HER TEMPLE

Thomas Hardy

Dear, think not that they will forget you: — If craftsmanly art should be mine I will build up a temple, and set you Therein as its shrine.

They may say: “Why a woman such honour?” — Be told, “O, so sweet was her fame, That a man heaped this splendour upon her; None now knows his name.”

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