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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529696" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Tree: An Old Man's Story</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its roots are bristling in the air <br>Like some mad Earth-god's spiny hair; <br>The loud south-wester's swell and yell <br>Smote it at midnight, and it fell. <br> Thus ends the tree <br> Where Some One sat with me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its boughs, which none but darers trod, <br>A child may step on from the sod, <br>And twigs that earliest met the dawn <br>Are lit the last upon the lawn. <br> Cart off the tree <br> Beneath whose trunk sat we! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">III </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, there we sat: she cooed content, <br>And bats ringed round, and daylight went; <br>The gnarl, our seat, is wrenched and sunk, <br>Prone that queer pocket in the trunk <br> Where lay the key <br> To her pale mystery. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Years back, within this pocket-hole <br>I found, my Love, a hurried scrawl <br>Meant not for me," at length said I; <br>"I glanced thereat, and let it lie: <br> The words were three - <br> 'Beloved, I agree.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">V </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Who placed it here; to what request <br>It gave assent, I never guessed. <br>Some prayer of some hot heart, no doubt, <br>To some coy maiden hereabout, <br> Just as, maybe, <br> With you, Sweet Heart, and me." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She waited, till with quickened breath <br>She spoke, as one who banisheth <br>Reserves that lovecraft heeds so well, <br>To ease some mighty wish to tell: <br> "'Twas I," said she, <br> "Who wrote thus clinchingly. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"My lover's wife--aye, wife!--knew nought <br>Of what we felt, and bore, and thought . . . <br>He'd said: 'I wed with thee or die: <br>She stands between, 'tis true. But why? <br> Do thou agree, <br> And--she shalt cease to be.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"How I held back, how love supreme <br>Involved me madly in his scheme <br>Why should I say? . . . I wrote assent <br>(You found it hid) to his intent . . . <br> She--DIED . . . But he <br> Came not to wed with me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"O shrink not, Love!--Had these eyes seen <br>But once thine own, such had not been! <br>But we were strangers . . . Thus the plot <br>Cleared passion's path.--Why came he not <br> To wed with me? . . . <br> He wived the gibbet-tree." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">X </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- Under that oak of heretofore <br>Sat Sweetheart mine with me no more: <br>By many a Fiord, and Strom, and Fleuve <br>Have I since wandered . . . Soon, for love, <br> Distraught went she - <br> 'Twas said for love of me.</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=529696" data-title="The Tree: An Old Man's Story de Thomas Hardy" data-description="I Its roots are bristling in the air Like some mad Earth-god's spiny hair; The loud south-wester's swell and yell Smote it at midnight, and it fell. Thus ends the tree Where Some One sat with me. II I..."></div> </div> </div>
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