Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House

Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses (1922)
by Thomas Hardy
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
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THE FALLOW DEER
AT THE LONELY HOUSE


ONE without looks in to-night
Through the curtain-chink
From the sheet of glistening white;
One without looks in to-night
As we sit and think
By the fender-brink.

We do not discern those eyes
Watching in the snow;
Lit by lamps of rosy dyes
We do not discern those eyes
Wondering, aglow,
Fourfooted, tiptoe.