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GAFFER’S LAST JOURNEY
The cart is ready; come! . . . Oh, is it true?
Gaffer, dear Gaffer, can’t you hear me cry?
Must the old place call out, instead of you,
“Good-bye”?
Ah, sure, ’tis only market-day at Shere;
We’ve only tuck’d you in all snug to go
With Polly that you’ve harness’d, Gaffer, dear. . . .
No! no!
Never again you’ll yoke her at the door!
Never, but this once, take the market-track!
And oh! you’ll never, never any more
Come back!
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