Transcribed from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES WITH MISCELLANEOUS PIECES * * * * * BY THOMAS HARDY * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1919 * * * * * COPYRIGHT _First Edition_ 1914 _Reprinted_ 1915, 1919 _Pocket Edition_ 1919 * * * * * CONTENTS LYRICS AND REVERIES— PAGE In Front of the Landscape 3 Channel Firing 7 The Convergence of the Twain 9 The Ghost of the Past 12 After the Visit 14 To Meet, or Otherwise 16 The Difference 18 The Sun on the Bookcase 19 “When I set out for Lyonnesse” 20 A Thunderstorm in Town 21 The Torn Letter 22 Beyond the Last Lamp 25 The Face at the Casement 27 Lost Love 30 “My spirit will not haunt the mound” 31 Wessex Heights 32 In Death divided 35 The Place on the Map 37 Where the Picnic was 39 The Schreckhorn 41 A Singer asleep 42 A Plaint to Man 45 God’s Funeral 47 Spectres that grieve 52 “Ah, are you digging on my grave?” 54 SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE— I. At Tea 59 II.