Thomas Hardy - In the Night She Came lyrics

I told her when I left one day That whatsoever weight of care Might strain our love, Time's mere a**ault   Would work no changes there. And in the night she came to me,   Toothless, and wan, and old, With leaden concaves round her eyes,   And wrinkles manifold. I tremblingly exclaimed to her, "O wherefore do you ghost me thus! I have said that dull defacing Time   Will bring no dreads to us." "And is that true of YOU?" she cried   In voice of troubled tune. I faltered: "Well . . . I did not think   You would test me quite so soon!" She vanished with a curious smile, Which told me, plainlier than by word, That my staunch pledge could scarce beguile   The fear she had averred. Her doubts then wrought their shape in me,   And when next day I paid My due caress, we seemed to be   Divided by some shade.