Her Initials

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.

1869.

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Hardy, Thomas. 1898. Wessex Poems & Other Verses