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In March, being at Ventnor, Hardy visited Swinburne’s grave at Bonchurch, and composed the poem entitled ‘A Singer Asleep’. It is remembered by a friend who accompanied him on this expedition how that windy March day had a poetry of its own, how primroses clustered in the hedges, and noisy rooks wheeled in the air over the little churchyard. Hardy gathered a spray of ivy and laid it on the grave of that brother-poet of whom he never spoke save in words of admiration and affection.
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Hardy, F.E. (1962). The Freedom of the Borough. In: The Life of Thomas Hardy 1840–1928. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00286-3_30
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