The Stranger's Song
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The Stranger's Song
(As sung by MR. CHARLES CHARRINGTON in the play of "The Three Wayfarers")
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O my trade it is the rarest one,
Simple shepherds all -
My trade is a sight to see;
For my customers I tie, and take 'em up on high,
And waft 'em to a far countree!
My tools are but common ones,
Simple shepherds all -
My tools are no sight to see:
A little hempen string, and a post whereon to swing,
Are implements enough for me!
To-morrow is my working day,
Simple shepherds all -
To-morrow is a working day for me:
For the farmer's sheep is slain, and the lad who did it ta'en,
And on his soul may God ha' mer-cy!
Printed in "The Three Strangers," 1883.
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About Thomas Hardy
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Summary
Author's Preface
The Temporary The All
Amabel
Hap
"In Vision I Roamed"
At a Bridal
Postponement
A Confession to a Friend in Trouble
Neutral Tones
She
Her Initials
Her Dilemma
Revulsion
She, To Him
Ditty
The Sergeant's Song
Valenciennes
San Sebastian
The Stranger's Song
The Burghers
Leipzig
The Peasant's Confession
The Alarm
Her Death and After
The Dance at the Phoenix
The Casterbridge Captains
A Sign-Seeker
My Cicely
Her Immortality
The Ivy-Wife
A Meeting with Despair
Unknowing
Friends Beyond
To Outer Nature
Thoughts of Phena
Middle-Age Enthusiasms
In a Wood
To a Lady
To an Orphan Child
Nature's Questioning
The Impercipient
At An Inn
The Slow Nature
In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's
Heiress and Architect
The Two Men
Lines
"I Look into my Glass"
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