What did it mean? Thomas Hardy
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What did it mean that noontide, when
You bade me pluck the flower
Within the other woman’s bower,
  Whom I knew nought of then?
I thought the flower blushed deeplier - aye,
And as I drew its stalk to me
It seemed to breathe: “I am, I see,
Made use of in a human play.”
And while I plucked, upstarted sheer
As phantom from the pane thereby
A corpse-like countenance, with eye
That iced me by its baleful peer -
  Silent, as from a bier . . .
When I came back your face had changed,
  It was no face for me;
O did it speak of hearts estranged,
  And deadly rivalry
  In times before
  I darked your door,
  To seise me of
  Mere second love,
Which still the haunting first deranged?
You bade me pluck the flower
Within the other woman’s bower,
  Whom I knew nought of then?
I thought the flower blushed deeplier - aye,
And as I drew its stalk to me
It seemed to breathe: “I am, I see,
Made use of in a human play.”
And while I plucked, upstarted sheer
As phantom from the pane thereby
A corpse-like countenance, with eye
That iced me by its baleful peer -
  Silent, as from a bier . . .
When I came back your face had changed,
  It was no face for me;
O did it speak of hearts estranged,
  And deadly rivalry
  In times before
  I darked your door,
  To seise me of
  Mere second love,
Which still the haunting first deranged?
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