TRUE EXPRESSIONS
PHOTOGRAPHER : JOHN MACLEAN
THE WALK
You did not walk with me Of late to the hill-top tree By the gated ways , As in earlier days ; You were weak and lame , So you never came , And I went alone , and I did not mind , Not thinking of you as left behind . I walked up there to-day Just in the former way ; Surveyed around The familiar ground By myself again : What difference , then ? Only that underlying sense Of the look of a room on returning thence .
THOMAS HARDY 1840-1928
PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE 79