Beeny

Very specifically there is a poem by Thomas Hardy, perhaps better known for his prose works.

Beeny Cliff

March 1870 - March 1913

O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea

And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free -

The woman who I loved so, and who loyally loved me.

The pale mews plained below us, and the waves seemed far away

In a nether sky, engrossed in saying their ceaseless babbling say,

As we laughed light-heartedly aloft on that clear-sunned March day.

A little cloud then cloaked us, and there flew an irised rain.

And the Atlantic dyed its levels with a dull misfeatured stain,

And then the sun burst out again, and purples prinked the main.

- Still in all its chasmal beauty bulks old Beeny to the sky,

And shall she and I not go there once again now March is nigh,

And the sweet things said in that March say anew there by and by?

What if still in chasmal beauty looms that wild weird western shore,

The woman now is - elsewhere - whom the ambling pony bore,

And nor knows nor cares for Beeny, and will laugh there nevermore.

Further, in "A Death-Day Recalled," collected in Satires of Circumstance (1914), Thomas Hardy wrote:

Beeny did not quiver,

  Juliot grew not gray,

Thin Vallency's river

  Held its wonted way.

Bos seemed not to utter

  Dimmest note of dirge,

Targan mouth a mutterI.e. Pentargon

  To its creamy surge.

Yet though these, unheeding,

  Listless, passed the hour

Of her spirit's speeding,

  She had, in her flower,

Sought and loved the places

  Much and often pined

For their lonely faces

  When in towns confined.

Why did not Vallency

  In his purl deplore

One whose haunts were whence he

  Drew his limpid store?

Why did Bos not thunder,

  Targan apprehend

Body and Breath were sunder

  Of their former friend?

• Henry Chidley Reynolds (1849–1925), a New Zealand farm manager, butter manufacturer and exporter, was born at Beeny.

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