Thanks, Basil, very much appreciated.
Think I learnt a little more about A Sheep Fair, one of my Hardy favourites, from this exercise. Somehow the other way round, Housman to Hardy, seems more of a challenge.
Re the similarities, the last two stanzas of TH's 'Retty's Phases' have what may be echoes of AEH's 'Bredon Hill'. Apparently Hardy's favourite Housman poem was 'Is my team ploughing'.
However, we'll have to see how 'Lucy's Fancies' apply in this case.
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