<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529476" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Drummer Hodge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest<br>Uncoffined -- just as found:<br>His landmark is a kopje-crest<br>That breaks the veldt around:<br>And foreign constellations west<br>Each night above his mound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young Hodge the drummer never knew --<br>Fresh from his Wessex home --<br>The meaning of the broad Karoo,<br>The Bush, the dusty loam,<br>And why uprose to nightly view<br>Strange stars amid the gloam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet portion of that unknown plain<br>Will Hodge for ever be;<br>His homely Northern breast and brain<br>Grow to some Southern tree,<br>And strange-eyed constellations reign<br>His stars eternally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529476" data-title="Drummer Hodge de Thomas Hardy" data-description="They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined -- just as found: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the veldt around: And foreign constellations west Each night above his mound. Young Hodge the drummer never knew -- Fresh from his Wessex ..."></div> </div> </div>

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