“We two kept house, the Past and I,
The Past and I;
I tended while it hovered nigh,
Leaving me never alone.”

— Thomas Hardy

" The Ghost of the Past http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2715", lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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