HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE  H0053  5/31/00  "POEM "SURVIEW' IDENTIFIED"
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:20:20 -0600
From: Joanna Gibson <jbgibson@tamu.edu>
Subject: Help Needed

A friend who is on the T.E. Lawrence list tells me they are trying to
identify the source of the passage, "cry from the green-grained sticks of
the fire." Is it from one of Hardy's novels?  If you can help, please get
in touch.


Thanks,

Joanna Gibson
Department of English
Texas A&M University

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From: Martin Ray <enl090@abdn.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Help Needed
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:48:08 -0400 (EDT)

Hello there

It's the opening line of Hardy's poem, 'Surview'. I'll copy 
the poem below:

Surview

A cry from the green-grained sticks of the fire
Made me gaze where it seemed to be:
'Twas my own voice talking therefrom to me
On how I had walked when my sun was higher -
My heart in its arrogancy.
'You held not to whatsoever was true,'
Said my own voice talking to me:
'Whatsoever was just you were slack to see;
Kept not things lovely and pure in view,'
Said my own voice talking to me.
'You slighted her that endureth all,'
Said my own voice talking to me;
'Vaunteth not, trusteth hopefully;
That suffereth long and is kind withal,'
Said my own voice talking to me.
'You taught not that which you set about,'
Said my own voice talking to me;
'That the greatest of things is Charity....'
- And the sticks burnt low, and the fire went out,
And my voice ceased talking to me.

All the best
Martin Ray

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Dr Martin Ray
Department of English
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Scotland, UK
m.ray@abdn.ac.uk

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:05:03 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Help Needed
  

Now *that*, Martin, has to be THE record in research feedback in the entire
history of English Literature!
  Cheers,
 Rosemarie

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:11:07 -0600
From: Joanna Gibson <jbgibson@tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: Help Needed

Martin,

Thanks!  The request for help was originially from Jeremy Wilson,
Lawrence's authorized biographer.  I'm forwarding the poem to the Lawrence
group.

Joanna Gibson

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