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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... FRIENDS BEYOND William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Led low late at plough, Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now! "Gone," I call them, gone for good, that group of local hearts and heads; Yet at mothy curfew-tide, And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and leads They've a way of whispering to me--fellowwight who yet abide-- In the muted, measured note Of a ripple under archways, or a lone cave's stillicide: "We have triumphed: this achievement turns the bane to antidote, Unsuccesses to success, Many thought-worn eves and morrows to a morrow free of thought. us FRIENDS BEYOND 113 "No more need we corn and clothing, feel of old terrestrial stress; Chill detraction stirs no sigh; Fear of death has even bygone us: death gave all that we possess." W. D.--" Ye mid burn the old base-viol that I set such value by." Squire--" You may hold the manse in fee, You may wed my spouse, may let my children's memory of me die." Lady--" You may have my rich brocades, my laces; take each household key; Ransack coffer, desk, bureau; Quiz the few poor treasures hid there, con the letters kept by me." Far.--" Ye mid zell my favourite heifer, ye mid let the charlock grow, Foul the grinterns, give up thrift." Wife--" If ye break my best blue china, children, I shan't care or ho." All--" We've no wish to hear the tidings, how the people's fortunes shift; What your daily doings are; Who are wedded, born, divided; if your lives beat slow or swift. "Curious not the least are we if our intents you make or mar, I 114 FRIENDS BEYOND If you quire to our old tune, If the City stage still passes, if the weirs still roar afar." --Thus, with very gods' composure, freed those crosses late...
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- PublisherMacmillan and Co., Limited,
- Publication date1940
- ISBN 10 0333078926
- ISBN 13 9780333078921
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages238
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