Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses

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Author: Thomas Hardy

IV
THE MARKET-GIRL

Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb,
All eager to sell her honey and apples and bunches of garden herb;
And if she had offered to give her wares and herself with them too that day,
I doubt if a soul would have cared to take a bargain so choice away.

But chancing to trace her sunburnt grace that morning as I passed nigh,
I went and I said "Poor maidy dear!—and will none of the people buy?"
And so it began; and soon we knew what the end of it all must be,
And I found that though no others had bid, a prize had been won by me.

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Chicago: Thomas Hardy, "IV the Market-Girl," Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, ed. Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed March 29, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KZXV5HSWWS2RTQA.

MLA: Hardy, Thomas. "IV the Market-Girl." Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, edited by Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 29 Mar. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KZXV5HSWWS2RTQA.

Harvard: Hardy, T, 'IV the Market-Girl' in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 29 March 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KZXV5HSWWS2RTQA.