Her Initals

Portrait of Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

UPON a poet's page I wrote Of old two letters of her name; Part seemed she of the effulgent thought Whence that high singer's rapture came. --When now I turn the leaf the same Immortal light illumes the lay But from the letters of her name The radiance has died away.

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