# Quote — Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses

> William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough,
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> Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's,
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> And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Book: [Wessex Poems and Other Verses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/wessex-poems-and-other-verses.md)
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## More from this book

> All the vast various moils that mean a world alive.

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> Yet saw he something in the lives
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> Of those who'd ceased to live
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> That rounded them with majesty
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> Which living failed to give.

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> For incensed love breathes quick and dies,
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> When famished love a-lingering lies.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/wessex-poems-and-other-verses/for-incensed-love.md)