Thomas Hardy - The Rejected Member's Wife lyrics

We shall see her no more   On the balcony, Smiling, while hurt, at the roar   As of surging sea From the stormy sturdy band   Who have doomed her lord's cause, Though she waves her little hand   As it were applause. Here will be candidates yet,   And candidates' wives, Fervid with zeal to set   Their ideals on our lives: Here will come market-men   On the market-days, Here will clash now and then   More such party a**ays. And the balcony will fill   When such times are renewed, And the throng in the street will thrill   With to-day's mettled mood; But she will no more stand   In the sunshine there, With that wave of her white-gloved hand,   And that chestnut hair.