Explore "By Henstridge Cross at the Year's End" by Thomas Hardy on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
(From this centuries-old cross-road the highway leads east to London, / north to Bristol and Bath, west to Exeter and the Land's End, and south / to the Channel coast.)
WHY go the east road now?... / That way a youth went on a morrow / After mirth, and he brought back sorrow / Painted upon his brow / Why go the east road now?