Till they rise again, as they were a new bell's boom,

"He hears it not now, but used to notice such things"?

Thomas Hardy

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STEPPING WESTWARD

"What, you are stepping westward?"—"Yea."

—'Twould be a wildish destiny,

If we, who thus together roam

In a strange land, and far from home,

Were in this place the guests of chance;