Thomas Hardy - They would not come lyrics

I travelled to where in her lifetime   She'd knelt at morning prayer,   To call her up as if there; But she paid no heed to my suing, As though her old haunt could win not   A thought from her spirit, or care. I went where my friend had lectioned   The prophets in high declaim,   That my soul's ear the same Full tones should catch as aforetime; But silenced by gear of the Present   Was the voice that once there came! Where the ocean had sprayed our banquet   I stood, to recall it as then:   The same eluding again! No vision. Shows contingent Affrighted it further from me   Even than from my home-den. When I found them no responders,   But fugitives prone to flee   From where they had used to be, It vouched I had been led hither As by night wisps in bogland,   And bruised the heart of me!