"When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, "He was a man who used to notice such things"?"
Thomas Hardy

January 1, 1970

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"Afterwards", ll. 1-4

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