Tess was never an unalloyed maid –
not Hardy’s vessel of pure emotion
untinctured by innocence
Such country girls are as scarce
as a hen’s brightly bared tooth
Too hastily judged? Or not? …/
Tess was never an unalloyed maid –
not Hardy’s vessel of pure emotion
untinctured by innocence
Such country girls are as scarce
as a hen’s brightly bared tooth
Too hastily judged? Or not? …/