Misconception Thomas Hardy
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I busied myself to find a sure
    Snug hermitage
That should preserve my Love secure
    From the world's rage;
Where no unseemly saturnals,
  Or strident traffic-roars,
Or hum of intervolved cabals
  Should echo at her doors.
I laboured that the diurnal spin
    Of vanities
Should not contrive to suck her in
    By dark degrees,
And cunningly operate to blur
  Sweet teachings I had begun;
And then I went full-heart to her
  To expound the glad deeds done.
She looked at me, and said thereto
    With a pitying smile,
"And THIS is what has busied you
    So long a while?
O poor exhausted one, I see
  You have worn you old and thin
For naught! Those moils you fear for me
  I find most pleasure in!"
    Snug hermitage
That should preserve my Love secure
    From the world's rage;
Where no unseemly saturnals,
  Or strident traffic-roars,
Or hum of intervolved cabals
  Should echo at her doors.
I laboured that the diurnal spin
    Of vanities
Should not contrive to suck her in
    By dark degrees,
And cunningly operate to blur
  Sweet teachings I had begun;
And then I went full-heart to her
  To expound the glad deeds done.
She looked at me, and said thereto
    With a pitying smile,
"And THIS is what has busied you
    So long a while?
O poor exhausted one, I see
  You have worn you old and thin
For naught! Those moils you fear for me
  I find most pleasure in!"
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