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The Dead Man Walking (Thomas Hardy)

from Poetry and Music 5 by Toby Darling

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The Dead Man Walking By Thomas Hardy

D A
They hail me as one living,
Bm F#m
But don't they know
A Bm
That I have died of late years,
F#m
Untombed although?

I am but a shape that stands here,
A pulseless mould,
A pale past picture, screening
Ashes gone cold.

E D
Not at a minute's warning,
A Bm
Not in a loud hour,
C#m Bm
For me ceased Time's enchantments
F#m
In hall and bower.

There was no tragic transit,
No catch of breath,
When silent seasons inched me
On to this death ....

— A Troubadour-youth I rambled
With Life for lyre,
The beats of being raging
In me like fire.

But when I practised eyeing
The goal of men,
It iced me, and I perished
A little then.

D E F#m Bm
When passed my friend, my kinsfolk,
A G F#m
Through the Last Door,
D E F#m Bm
And left me standing bleakly,
A E Bm
I died yet more;

And when my Love's heart kindled
In hate of me,
Wherefore I knew not, died I
One more degree.

And if when I died fully
I cannot say,
And changed into the corpse-thing
I am to-day,

E D
Yet is it that, though whiling
A Bm
The time somehow
C#m Bm C#m Bm
In walking, talking, smiling,
Bm
I live not now.

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from Poetry and Music 5, released November 12, 2016

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