Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and som…

Thomas Hardy
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Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy, p.236, 谷月社
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Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy, p.236, 谷月社

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