. The everlasting mercy and The widow in the Bye street. to meadow see her the sleep out of their heavy eyes,They lean upon the parapet to stare;They see her plaiting basil in her hair,Basil, the dark red wound-wort, cops of blue self-heal and golden Jacks of Dover. Dully they watch her, then they turn to goTo that high Shropshire upland of late hay;Her singing lingers with them as they many times they try it, now grave, now gay,Till, with full throat, over the hills lift it clear; oh, very clear it towersMixed with the swish of many falling flowers.
. The everlasting mercy and The widow in the Bye street. to meadow see her the sleep out of their heavy eyes,They lean upon the parapet to stare;They see her plaiting basil in her hair,Basil, the dark red wound-wort, cops of blue self-heal and golden Jacks of Dover. Dully they watch her, then they turn to goTo that high Shropshire upland of late hay;Her singing lingers with them as they many times they try it, now grave, now gay,Till, with full throat, over the hills lift it clear; oh, very clear it towersMixed with the swish of many falling flowers. Printed in the United States of Down Bye Street, in a little Shropshire town,There Uved a widow with her only son :She had no wealth nor title to renoT\Ti,Nor any joyous hours, never one. THEEVERLASTING MERCY AND THE WIDOW IN THE BYE STREET ByJOHN MASEFIELD AtUhor of The Tragedy of Nan TheTragedy of Pompey the Great, etc. NEW ILLUSTRATEDEDITION THE MACMILLAN COMPANY1919 AU rights reserved COPTBIOHT, 1911, By JOHN MA8EFIELD. COPTBIGHT, 1912, bt the macmillan company. COPTBIGHT, 1919, Bt JOHN MASEFIELD. NOV 26 1919 J. S. Gushing Co. — Berwick & Smith , Mass., <N © I \. TO MY WIFE 1 Thy place is higgyd above the sterrys cleer,Noon erthely paleys turouhte in so statly wysCyCom on my freend, my brothir moost enteeVyFor the I offryd my blood in sacrifise, John Lydgate. ILLUSTRATIONS Down Bye Street, in a Little Shropshire Town Frontispiece FACING FAOB By Dead Mans Thorn, While Setting WiresIn the Old Quarry-Pit They Say .But Wood Top Grass is Short and Sweet .The Carved Heads on the Ch
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