[Hardy-l] Birthday Poem for Thomas Hardy

[Betty Cortus]

Dear Tony,
Thanks for telling us this.  I, for one, would love to have been able  
to join you at the gravesides in beautiful old Stinsford churchyard,  
where so many of Hardy's ubiquitous ghosts still linger.

With kind good wishes,
Betty

On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Dr Tony Fincham wrote:

> Dear Betty,
>
> Many thanks for the poem.
>
> I have just trudged by Froomside path in mist and rain to stand by  
> Cecil Day-Lewis'
> grave & read the Birthday Poem twice over to the remains of the  
> collective Hardy Tombstones -
> thinking not only of Thomas but also of Emma & Florence, encased  
> there with him.
>
> Apart from some dimunitive distant birdsong & the rumble of traffic,
> the rest was silence.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tony Fincham.
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