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Part of Inscribed clipping of Old Shepherd's Prayer from The New Leader Book, 1922

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BY CHARLOTTE MEW
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UPto the bed by the window, where I be lyin',
Comes bells and bleat of the flock wi' they two
children's clack.
O ver, from under the eaves there's the starlings flyin',
A nd down in yard, fit to burst his chain, yapping _o ut
at Sue I do hear young Mac.

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Turning around like a falled-over sack
I can see team ploughin' in Whithy-bush
field and
meal carts startin' up road to Church-Town
.- Saturday arternoon the men goin' back
And the women from market, trapin' home over the
down.

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Heavenly Master, I wud like to wake to they same
green places
WhereI be know'd for breakin' dogs and follerin'
sheep.
And if I may not walk in th' old ways and look on th'
old faces
I wud sooner sleep.

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