Tess of the D’Urbervilles is awful sad
Like most of Thomas Hardy’s morbid stuff
Wasn’t that Alec D’Urberville a cad?
Sorry, but in this context it’s quite tough
To leave out the word ‘cad,’ yet does it prove
Hardy’s themes of loss that this word has died
Like the old rural ways he used to love
Those peasant nights beside the fireside?
That’s if they were lucky to live beside
Some forest where the tree-trunks could be had
For firewood, although this then would remove
The ancient wood over time. Hardy cried
For the world as it was when, as a lad
He’d roam chalk lanes and help thatch the odd roof
Mon 6 Oct 2008
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