[To be chaunted as in a solemn Dumpe by such as fear God.]
A BABY
TWO days with puckered face of pain
The accidental baby cried,
And on the morning of the third
Unclenched her tiny hands, and died.
FROM THE GREEK
BILL Jupp lies ’ere, aged sixty year:
From Tavistock ’e came.
Single ’e bided, and ’e wished
’Is father’d done the same.
A DEVON RHYME
GNARLY and bent and deaf ’s a post
Pore ol’ Ezekiel Purvis
Goeth creepin’ slowly up the ’ill
To the Commoonion Survis.
Tap-tappy-tappy up the haisle
Goeth stick and brassy ferule;
And Parson ’ath to stoopy down
And ’olley in ees yerole.