The Darkling Thrush
---by Thomas Hardy
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangle bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broke lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires
The land's sharp features seemed to be
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