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Part 1 Her Temple
English source:
Thomas Hardy
Dear, think not that they will forget you:
– If craftsmanly art should be mine
I will build up a temple, and set you
Therein as its shrine.
They may say: ‘Why a woman such honour?’
– Be told, ‘O so sweet was her fame,
That a man heaped this splendour upon her;
None now knows his name.’
– If craftsmanly art should be mine
I will build up a temple, and set you
Therein as its shrine.
They may say: ‘Why a woman such honour?’
– Be told, ‘O so sweet was her fame,
That a man heaped this splendour upon her;
None now knows his name.’
Composer
Gerald Finzi
Gerald Raphael Finzi was a British composer. He is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres.
Poet
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly…