I worked no wile to meet you lyrics
 by Thomas Hardy
		
		
I worked no wile to meet you,
           My sight was set elsewhere,
I sheered about to shun you,
           And lent your life no care.
I was unprimed to greet you
           At such a date and place,
Constraint alone had won you
           Vision of my strange face!
You did not seek to see me
           Then or at all, you said,
- Meant passing when you neared me,
           But stumblingblocks forbade.
You even had thought to flee me,
           By other mindings moved;
No influent star endeared me,
           Unknown, unrecked, unproved!
What, then, was there to tell us
           The flux of flustering hours
Of their own tide would bring us
           By no device of ours
To where the daysprings well us
           Heart-hydromels that cheer,
Till Time enearth and swing us
           Round with the turning sphere.