Lyrics and Ballads of Thomas Hardy. Contents: At Day-close in November Midnight on the Great Western (or The Journeying Boy) Wagtail and Baby The Little Old Table The Choirmaster’s Burial (or The Tenor Man’s Story) Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales) At the Railway Station (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin) Before Life and After.