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1840–1928

“IF IT'S EVER SPRING AGAIN”

Thomas Hardy

If it's ever spring again, Spring again, I shall go where went I when Down the moor-cock splashed, and hen,

Seeing me not, amid their flounder, Standing with my arm around her; If it's ever spring again, Spring again,

I shall go where went I then. If it's ever summer-time, Summer-time, With the hay crop at the prime,

And the cuckoos — two — in rhyme, As they used to be, or seemed to, We shall do as long we've dreamed to, If it's ever summer-time,

Summer-time, With the hay, and bees achime.

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