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When I set out for Lyonnesse :
As a young apprentice architect, British poet and novelist Thomas Hardy once visited a parish to supervise the restoration of a church. On his return from the parish, people noticed two things about him — a new glow in his eyes and a crumpled piece of paper sticking out of his coat pocket. That paper, it is recorded in one of his biographies, contained the draft of a poem. You are going to read that very poem inspired by a visit to a place which the poet calls Lyonnesse.
1 When I set out for Lyonnesse
2 A hundred miles away,
3 The rime was on the spray;
4 And starlight lit my lonesomeness
5 When I set out for Lyonnesse
6 A hundred miles away.
7 What would bechance at Lyonnesse
8 While I should sojourn there,
9 No prophet durst declare;
10 Nor did the wisest wizard guess
11 What would bechance at Lyonnesse
12 While I should sojourn there.
13 When I returned from Lyonnesse
14 With magic in my eyes,
15 All marked with mute surmise
16 My radiance rare and fathomless,
17 When I returned from Lyonnesse
18 With magic in my eyes.