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    <strong>THE LAST OF THE FLOCK.</strong>

    In distant tries I have been,

    A I have not often seen

    A healthy man, a man full grown

    Weep in the public roads alone.

    But such a one, on English ground,

    And in the broad high-way, I met;

    Along the broad high-way he came,

    His cheeks with tears were wet.

    Sturdy he seemed, though he was sad;

    And in his arms a lamb he had.

    He saw me, aurned aside,

    As if he wished himself to hide:

    Then with his coat he made essay

    To wipe those briny tears away.

    I followd him, and said, &quot;My friend

    &quot;What ails you? wherefore weep you so?&quotbbr></abbr>;

    --&quot;Shame on me, Sir! this lusty lamb,

    He makes my tears to ?ow.

    To-day I fetched him from the rock;

    He is the last of all my ?ock.

    When I was young, a single man.

    And after youthful follies ran,

    Though little given to care and thought,

    Yet, so it was, a ewe I bought;

    And other sheep from her I raised,

    As healthy sheep as you might see,

    And then I married, and was rich

    As I could wish to be;

    Of sheep I numberd a full score,

    And every year encreasd my store.<bdi>.99lib?</bdi>

    Year after year my stock it grew,

    And from this ohis single ewe,

    Full ?fty ely sheep I raised,

    As sweet a ?ock a<var>..</var>s ever grazed!

    Upon the mountain did they feed;

    They throve, a home did thrive.

    --This lusty lamb of all my store

    Is all that is alive:

    And now I care not if we die,

    And perish all of poverty.

    Ten children, Sir! had I to feed,

    Hard labour in a time of need!

    My pride was tamed, and in rief,

    I of the parish askd relief.

    They said I was a wealthy man;

    My sheep upon the mountain fed,

    And it was ?t that theook

    Whereof to buy us bread:&quot;

    &quot;Do this; how  we give to you,&quot;

    They cried, &quot;what to the poor is due?&quot;

    I sold a sheep as they had said,

    And bought my little children bread,

    And they were healthy with their food;

    For me it never did me good.

    A woeful time it was for me,

    To see the end of all my gains,

    The pretty ?ock which I had reared

    With all my care and pains,

    To see it melt like snow away!

    For me it was a woeful day.

    Aill! 藏书网and still another!

    A litt<mark></mark>le lamb, and then its mother!

    It was a vein that oppd,

    Like blood-drops from my heart they droppd.

    Till thirty were not left alive

    They dwindled, dwindled, one by one,

    And I may say that many a time

    I wished they all were gone:

    They dwindled one by one away;

    For me it was a woeful day.

    To wicked deeds I was ined,

    And wicked fancies crossd my mind,

    And every man I cd to see,

    I thought he knew some ill of me

    No peao fort could I ?nd,

    No ease, within doors or without,

    And crazily, and wearily,

    I went my work about.

    Oft-times I thought to run away;

    For me it was a woeful day.

    Sir! trecious ?oe,

    As dear as my own children be;

    For daily with my growing store

    I loved my children more and more.

    Alas! it was an evil time;

    God cursed me in my sore distress,

    I prayed, yet every day I thought

    I loved my children less;

    And every week, and every day,

    My ?ock, it seemed to melt away.

    They dwindled, Sir, sad sight to see!

    From ten to ?ve, from ?ve to three,

    A lamb, a weather, and a ewe;

    And then at last, from three to two;

    And of my ?fty, yesterday

    I had but only one,

    And here it lies upon my arm,

    Alas! and I have none;

    To-day I fetched it from the rock;

    It is the last of all my ?ock.&quot;

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