Thomas Hardy - The last time lyrics

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.