THE COMET AT YALBURY OR YELL'HAM

By Thomas Hardy

It bends far over Yell'ham Plain,

And we, from Yell'ham Height,

Stand and regard its fiery train,

So soon to swim from sight.

It will return long years hence, when

As now its strange swift shine

Will fall on Yell'ham; but not then

On that sweet form of thine.