# A Broken Appointment

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**Published on:** 2022-05-08
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by Thomas Hardy You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. Yet less for loss of your dear presence there Than that I thus found lacking in your make That high compassion which can overbear Reluctance for pure lovingkindness' sake Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum， You did not come. You love me not. And love alone can lend you loyalty: -I know and knew it. But, unto the store Of human deeds divine in all but name， Was it not worth a little hour or more To add yet this: Once you, a woman, came To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be You love me not.

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