The last time lyrics
 by Thomas Hardy
		
		
The kiss had been given and taken,
           And gathered to many past:
It never could reawaken;
           But you heard none say: “It’s the last!”
The clock showed the hour and the minute,
           But you did not turn and look:
You read no finis in it,
           As at closing of a book.
But you read it all too rightly
           When, at a time anon,
A figure lay stretched out whitely,
           And you stood looking thereon.