PAGE THE TEMPORARY THE ALL 1 AMABEL 4 HAP 7 “IN VISION I ROAMED” 9 AT A BRIDAL 11 POSTPONEMENT 13 A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IN TROUBLE 15 NEUTRAL TONES 17 SHE 19 HER INITIALS 21 HER DILEMMA 23 REVULSION 27 SHE, TO HIM, I. 31 ,, ,, II. 33 ,, ,, III. 35 ,, ,, IV. 37 DITTY 39 THE SERGEANT’S SONG 43 VALENCIENNES 45 SAN SEBASTIAN 51 THE STRANGER’S SONG 59 THE BURGHERS 61 LEIPZIG 67 THE PEASANT’S CONFESSION 79 THE ALARM 91 HER DEATH AND AFTER 103 THE DANCE AT THE PHŒNIX 115 THE CASTERBRIDGE CAPTAINS 125 A SIGN-SEEKER 129 MY CICELY 133 HER IMMORTALITY 143 THE IVY-WIFE 147 A MEETING WITH DESPAIR 149 UNKNOWING 153 FRIENDS BEYOND 155 TO OUTER NATURE 159 THOUGHTS OF PHENA 163 MIDDLE-AGE ENTHUSIASMS 167 IN A WOOD 169 TO A LADY 173 TO AN ORPHAN CHILD 175 NATURE’S QUESTIONING 177 THE IMPERCIPIENT 181 AT AN INN 187 THE SLOW NATURE 191 IN A EWELEAZE NEAR WEATHERBURY 195 THE FIRE AT TRANTER SWEATLEY’S 201 HEIRESS AND ARCHITECT 211 THE TWO MEN 217 LINES 223 “I LOOK INTO MY GLASS” 227 [Picture: Sketch of tower with sun-dial] THE TEMPORARY THE ALL CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellow-like, and despite divergence, Friends interlinked us. “Cherish him can I while the true one forthcome— Come the rich fulfiller of my prevision; Life is roomy yet, and the odds unbounded.” So self-communed I.