Thomas Hardy - The Old Gown lyrics

I have seen her in gowns the brightest,   Of azure, green, and red, And in the simplest, whitest,   Muslined from heel to head; I have watched her walking, riding,   Shade-flecked by a leafy tree, Or in fixed thought abiding   By the foam-fingered sea. In woodlands I have known her,   When boughs were mourning loud, In the rain-reek she has shown her   Wild-haired and watery-browed. And once or twice she has cast me   As she pomped along the street Court-clad, ere quite she had pa**ed me,   A glance from her chariot-seat. But in my memoried pa**ion   For evermore stands she In the gown of fading fashion   She wore that night when we, Doomed long to part, a**embled   In the snug small room; yea, when She sang with lips that trembled,   “Shall I see his face again?”