Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy
I
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined: just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around;
and foreign constellations west
each night aboe his mound.
II
Young Hodge the Drummer never knew -
fresh from his Wessex home -
the meaning of the broad Karoo,
the bush, the dusty loam,
and why uprose to
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