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Till in our eyes another sight we met; When fro my heart a sigh forthwith I fet, Rueing, alas, upon the woeful plight Of Misery, that next appear’d in sight. His face was lean, and some deal pined away, And eke his hands consumed to the bone; But, what his body was, I cannot say, For, on his carcase raiment had he none, Save clouts and patched pierced one by one, With staff in hand, and scrip on shoulders cast, His chief defence against the winter’s blast. His food, for most, was wild fruits of the tree, Unless sometime some crumbs fell to his share, Which in his wallet long, God wot, kept be, As on the which full daint’ly would he fare; His drink, the running stream! his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground, To this poor life was Misery ybound.
Till in our eyes another sight we met; When fro my heart a sigh forthwith I fet, Rueing, alas, upon the woeful plight Of Misery, that next appear’d in sight. His face was lean, and some deal pined away, And eke his hands consumed to the bone; But, what his body was, I cannot say, For, on his carcase raiment had he none, Save clouts and patched pierced one by one, With staff in hand, and scrip on shoulders cast, His chief defence against the winter’s blast. His food, for most, was wild fruits of the tree, Unless sometime some crumbs fell to his share, Which in his wallet long, God wot, kept be, As on the which full daint’ly would he fare; His drink, the running stream! his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground, To this poor life was Misery ybound.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 392 · printed citation: Sackville · subject: MISERY
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