Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems V2 (1800)
William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems V2 (1800)
William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LAST OF THE FLOCK. In distant countries I have been; And yet I have not often seen A healthy Man, a Man full grown, Weep in the public roads alone. But such a one, on English ground, And in the broad high-way, I met; Along the broad high-way he came, His cheeks with tears were wet. Sturdy he seemed, though he was sad; And in his arms a Lamb he had. He saw me, and he turned nside As if he wished himself to hide: Then with his coat he made essay To wipe those briny tears away. I followed him, and said,
My Friend
What ails you ? wherefore weep you so ? ? Shame on me, Sir ! this lusty Lamb, He makes my tears to flow. To-day I fetched him from the rock; He is the last of all my flock. When I was young, a single Man, And after youthful follies ran, Though little given to care and thought, Yet, so it was, a Ewe I bought; And other sheep from her I raised, As healthy -sheep as you might see; And then I married, and was rich As I could wish to be; ‘ - t Of sheep I numbered a full score, And every year increased my'store. Year after year my stock it grew. And from this one, this single Ewe, Full fifty comely sheep I raised, As sweet a flock as ever grazed ! Upon the mountain did they feed, They throve, and we at home did thrive. ?This lusty Lamb of all my store Is all that is alive; And now I care not if we die, And perish all of poverty. Six Children, Sir ! had I to feed, Hard labour in a time of need ! My pride was tamed, and in our grief, I of the Parish ask’d relief. They said I was a wealthy man; My sheep upon the mountain fed, And it was fit that thence I took Whereof to buy us bread:
Do this; how can we give to you, They cried,
what to the poor is due…
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