The End Of The World, Act I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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PERSONS	A
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HUFF the Farmer	B
SOLLERS the Wainwright	C
MERRICK the Smith	D
VINE the Publician	E
SHALE the Labourer	B
A DOWSER	B
MRS HUFF	F
WARP the Molecatcher	B
Men and Women of the Village	G
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ACT I	H
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Scene	E
A public house kitchen HUFF the Farmer and SOLLERS the Wainwright talking another man a stranger sitting silent	I
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Huff	F
Ay you may think we're well off	J
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Sollers	K
Now for croaks	K
Old toad who's trodden on you now Go on	E
But if you can croak us a new tune	E
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Huff	F
Ay	-
You think you're well off and don't grab my words	K
Before they're spoken but some folks I've heard	L
Pity us living quiet in the valley	M
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Sollers	K
Well I suppose 'tis their affair	B
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Huff	F
Is it	N
But what I mean to say if they think small	O
Of us that live in the valley mayn't it show	P
That we aren't all so happy as we think	Q
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MERRICK the smith comes in	E
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Merrick	R
Quick cider I believe I've swallowd a coal	S
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Sollers	K
Good evening True the heat's a wonder tonight Smith draws himself cider	B
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Huff	F
Haven't you brought your flute We've all got room	T
For music in our minds to night I'll swear	B
Working all day in the sun do seem to push	U
The thought out of your brain	E
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Sollers	K
O 'tis the sun	E
Had trodden on you That's what makes you croak	V
Ay whistle him somewhat put a tune in his brain	E
He'll else croak us out of pleasure with drinking	W
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Merrick	R
'Tis quenching I believe A tune Too hot	X
You want a fiddler	B
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Huff	F
Nay I want your flute	Y
I like a piping sound not scraping o' guts	K
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Merrick	R
This is no weather for a man to play	-
Flutes or music at all that asks him spend	Z
His breath and spittle you want both yourself	A2
These oven days Wait till a fiddler comes	K
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Huff	F
Who ever comes down here	B
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Sellers	K
There's someone come	B2
Pointing with his pipe to the stranger	B
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Merrick	R
Good evening mister Are you a man for tunes	K
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Stranger	B
And if I was I'ld give you none to night	C
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Merrick	R
Well no offence there's no offence I hope	C2
In taking a dummy for a tuneful man	E
Is it for can't or won't you are	B
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Stranger	B
You wouldn't if you carried in your mind	D2
What I've been carrying all day	-
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Sollers	K
What's that	E2
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Stranger	B
You wait you'll know about it soon O yes	K
Soon enough it will find you and and rouse you	F2
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Huff	F
Now ain't that just the way we go down here	B
Here in the valley we're like dogs in a yard	G2
Chained to our kennels and wall'd in all round	H2
And not a sound of the world jumps over our hills	K
And when there comes a passenger among us	K
One who has heard what's stirring out beyond	I2
'Tis a grutchy mumchance fellow in the dismals	K
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Stranger	B
News it it you want I could give you news	K
I wonder did you ever hate to feel	J2
The earth so fine and splendid	K2
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Huff	F
Oh you're one	E
Has stood in the brunt of the world's wickedness	K
Like me But listen and I'll give you a tale	L2
Of wicked things done in this little valley	M
Done against me will surely make you think	Q
The Devil here fetcht up his masterpiece	K
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Sollers	K
Ah but it's hot enough without you talking	W
Your old hell fire about that pair of sinners	K
Leave them alone and drink	Q
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Huff	F
I'll smell them grilling	W
One of these days	K
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Merrick	R
But there'll be nought to drink	Q
When that begins Best keep your skin full now	E
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Stranger	B
What do I care for wickedness Let those	K
Who've played with dirt and thought the game was bold	M2
Make much of it while they can there's a big thing	W
Coming down to us ay well on its road	N2
Will make their ploys seem mighty piddling sport	O2
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Huff	F
This is a fool or else it's what I think	Q
The world now breeds such crowd that they've no crombie room	T
For well grown sins they hatch 'em small as flies	K
But you stay here out of the world awhile	P2
Here where a man's mind and a woman's mind	D2
Can fling out large in wickedness you'll see	M
Something monstrous here something dreadful	Q2
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Strainger	B
I've seen enough of that Though it was only	M
Fancying made me see it it was enough	F
I've seen the folk of the world yelling aghast	R2
Scurrying to hide themselves I want nought else	K
Monstrous and dreadful	Q2
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Merrick	R
What had roused 'em so	K
Some house fire	B
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Huff	F
A huzzy flogged to death	S2
For her hard faced adultery	M
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Stranger too intent to hear them	T2
Oh to think of it	N
Talk do chatter some nonsense else I'll think	Q
And then I'm feeling like a grub that crawls	K
All abroad in a dusty road and high	H
Above me and shaking the ground beneath me come	B2
Wheels of a thundering wain right where I'm plodding	W
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Sollers	K
Queer thinking that	E2
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Stranger	B
And here's a queerer thing	W
I have a sort of lust in me pushing me still	U2
Into that terrible way of thinking like	V2
Black men in India lie them down and long	W2
To feel their holy wagon crack their spines	K
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Merrick	R
Do you mean beetles I've driven over scores	K
They sprawling on their backs or standing mazed	E2
I never knew they liked it	E2
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Sollers	K
He means frogs	K
I know what's in his mind When I was young	X2
My mother would catch us frogs and set them down	E
Lapt in a screw of paper in the ruts	K
And carts going by would quash 'em and I'ld laugh	Y2
And yet be thinking ' Suppose it was myself	A2
Twisted stiff in huge paper and wheels	K
Bit as the wall of a barn treading me flat '	-
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Huff	F
I know what's in his mind just madness it is	K
He's lookt too hard at his fellows in the world	E2
Sight of their monstrous hearts like devils in cages	K
Has jolted all the gearing of his wits	K
It needs a tough brain ay a brain like mine	E
To pore on ugly sin and not go mad	E2
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Stranger	B
Madness You're not far out I came up here	B
To be alone and quiet in my thoughts	K
Alone in my own dreadful mind The path	Z2
Of red sand trodden hard went up between	E
High hedges overgrown of hawthorn blowing	W
White as clouds ay it seemed burrowed through	B
A white sweet smelling cloud I walking there	B
Small as a hare that runs its tunnelled drove	A3
Thro' the close heather And beside my feet	E2
Blue greygles drifted gleaming over the grass	K
And up I climbed to sunlight green in birches	K
And the path turned to daisies among grass	K
With bonfires of the broom beside like flame	B3
Of burning straw and I lookt into your valley	M
I could scarce look	C3
Anger was smarting in my eyes like grit	E2
O the fine earth and fine all for nothing	W
Mazed I walkt seeing and smelling and hearing	W
The meadow lands all shining fearfully gold	E2
Cruel as fire the sight of them toucht my mind	E2
Breathing was all a honey taste of clover	B
And bean flowers I would have rather had it	E2
Carrion or the stink of smouldering brimstone	E
And larks aloft the happy piping fools	K
And squealing swifts that slid on hissing wings	K
And yellowhammers playing spry in hedges	K
I never noted them before but now	E
Yes I was mad and crying mad to see	M
The earth so fine fine all for nothing	W
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Sollers spits	K
Pst yellowhammers He talks gentry talk	D3
That's worse than being mad	E2
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Stranger	B
I tell you you'll be feeling them to morn	E
And hating them to be so wonderful	Q2
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Merrick	R
Let's have some sense Where do you live	E3
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Stranger	B
Nowhere	B
I'm always travelling	W
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Huff	F
Why what's your trade	E2
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Stranger	B
A dowser	B
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Huff	F
You're the man for me	M
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Stranger	B
Not I	H
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Huff	F
Ho this is better than a fiddler now	E
One of those fellows who have nerves so clever	B
That they can feel the waters of underground	E2
Tingling in their fingers	K
You find me a spring in my high grazing field	E2
I'll give you what I save in trundling water	B
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Stranger	B
I find you water now No but I'll find you	B
Fire and fear and unbelievable death	S2
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VINE the Publician comes in	E
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Vine	E
Are ye all served Ay seems so what's your score	B
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Merrick	R
Two ciders	K
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Huff	F
Three	M
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Sollers	K
And two for me	M
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Vine to Dowser	M
And you	B
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Dowser	M
Naught I was waiting on you	B
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Vine	E
Will you drink	Q
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Dowser	M
Ay Drink what else is left for a man to do	B
Who knows what I know	K
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Vine	E
Good What is't you know	K
You tell it out and set my trade a buzzing	W
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Sollers	K
He's queer Give him his mug and ease his tongue	X2
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Vine	E
I had to swill the pigs else I'd been here	M
But we've the old fashion in this house you draw	M
I keep the score Well what's the worry on you	B
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Sollers	K
Oh he's in love	F3
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Dowser	M
You fleering grinning louts	K
I'll give it you now now have it in your faces	K
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Sollers	K
Crimini he's going to fight	E2
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Dowser	M
You try and fight with the thing that's on my side	E2
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Merrick	R
A ranter	M
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Huff	F
A boozy one then	E
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Dowser	M
Open yon door	M
'Tis dark enough by now Open it you	B
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Vine	E
Hold on Have you got something fierce outside	E2
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Merrick	R
A Russian bear	M
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Sollers	K
Dowsers can play strange games	K
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Huff	F
No tricks	K
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Dowser	M
This is a trick to rouse the world	E2
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He opens the door	M
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Look out Between the elms There's my fierce thing	W
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Merrick	R
He means the star with the tail like a feather of fire	M
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Sollers	K
Comet it's called	E2
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Huff	F
Do you mean the comet mister	M
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Dowser	M
What do you think of it	E2
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Huff	F
Pretty enough	F
But I saw a man loose off a rocket once	K
It made more stir and flare of itself though yon	E
Does better at steady burning	W
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Dowser	M
Stir and flare	M
You'll soon forget your rocket	E2
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Merrick	R
Tell you what	E2
I thought last night now going home Says I	H
'Tis just like the look of a tadpole if I saw	M
A tadpole silver as a dace that swam	G3
Upside down towards me through black water	M
I'ld see the plain spit of that star and his tail	L2
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Sollers	K
And how does your thought go	K
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Dowser	M
It's what I know	K
A tadpole and a rocket My dear God	E2
And I can still laugh out What do you think	Q
Your tadpole's made of What lets your rocket fling	W
Those streaming sparks across the half of night	E2
Splashing the burning spray of its haste among	X2
The quiet business of the other stars	K
Ay that's a fiery jet it leaves behind	E2
In such enormous drift What sort of fire	M
Is spouted so spouted and never quenching	W
There is no name for that star's fire it is	K
The fire that was before the world was made	E2
The fire that all the things we live among	X2
Remember being and whitest fire we know	K
Is its poor copy in their dreaming trance	K
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Huff	F
That would be hell fire	M
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Dowser	M
Ay if you like hell fire	M
Hell fire flying through the night 'Twould be	M
A thing to blink about a blast of it	E2
Swept in your face eh and a thing to set	E2
The whole stuff of the earth smoking rarely	M
Which of you said ' the heat's a wonder to night'	E2
You have not done with marvelling There'll come	B2
A night when all your clothes are a pickle of sweat	E2
And for all that the sweat on your salty skin	E
Shall dry and crack in the breathing of wind	E2
That's like a draught come through an open'd furnace	K
The leafage of the trees shall brown and faint	E2
All sappy growth turning to brittle rubbish	H3
As the near heat of the star strokes the green earth	I3
And time shall brush the fields as visibly	M
As a rough hand brushes against the nap	J3
Of gleaming cloth killing the season's colour	M
Each hour charged with the wasting of a year	M
And sailors panting on their warping ecks	K
Will watch the sea steam like broth about them	T2
You'll know what I know then That towering star	M
Hangs like a fiery buzzard in the night	E2
Intent over our earth Ay now his journey	M
Points straight as a plummet's drop down to us	K
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Huff	F
Why that's the end of the world	E2
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Dowser	M
You've said it now	E
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Sollers	K
What soon In a day or two	B
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Merrick	R
You can't mean that	E2
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Vine	E
End of the World Well now I never thought	E2
To hear the news of that If you've the truth	K3
In what you say likely this is an evening	W
That we'll be talking over often and often	E
'How was it Sollers ' I'll say ' or you Merrick	R
Do you mind clearly how he lookt ' And then	E
' End of the world he said and drank like that	E2
Solemn ' And right he was he had it all	O
As sure as I have when my sow's to farrow	M
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Dowser	M
Are you making a joke of me Keep your mind	E2
For tippling while you can	E
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Vine	E
Was that a joke	V
I'm always bad at seeing 'em even my own	E
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Dowser	M
A fool's 'Twill cheer you when the earth blows up	L3
Like as it were all gunpowder	M
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Vine	E
You mean	E
The star will butt his burning head against us	K
'Twill knock the world to flinders I suppose	K
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Dowser	M
Ay or with that wild monstrous tail of his	K
Smash down upon the air and make it bounce	K
Like water under the flukes of a harpooned whale	L2
And thrash it to a poisonous fire and we	M
And all the life of the world drowned in blazing	W
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Vine	E
'Twill be a handsone sight If my old wife	M3
Were with me now This would have suited her	M
'I do like things to happen ' she would say	K
Never shindy enough for her and now	E
She's gone and can't be seeing this	K
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Dowser	M
You poor fool	N3
How will it be a sight to you when your eyes	K
Are scorcht to little cinders in your head	E2
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Vine	E
Whether or no there must be folks outside	E2
Willing to know of this I'll scatter your news	K
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He goes A short pause then SOLLERS breaks out	E2
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Sollers	K
No no it woudn't do for me at all	O
Nor for you neither Merrick End of the World	E2
Bogy A parson's tale or a bairn's	K
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Merrick	R
That's it	E2
Your trade's a gift easy as playing tunes	K
But Sollers here and I we've had to drill	U2
Sinew and muscle into their hard lesson	E
Until they work in timber and flowing iron	E
As kindly as I pick up my pint your work	O3
Grows in your nature like plain speech in a child	E2
But we have learnt to think in a foreign tongue	X2
And something must come out of all our skill	U2
We shan't go sliding down as glib as you	B
Into notions of the End of the World	E2
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Sollers	K
Give me a tree you may say and give me steel	J2
And I'll put forth my shapely mind I'll make	P3
Out of my head like telling a well known tale	L2
A wain that goes as comely on the roads	K
As a ship sailing the lines of it true as gospel	Q2
Have I learnt that all for nothing O no	M
End of the World It wouldn't do at all	O
No more making of wains after I've spent	E2
My time in getting the right skill in my hands	K
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Dowser	M
Ay you begin to feel it now I think	Q
But you complain like boys for a game spoilt	E2
Shaping your carts forging your iron But Life	M3
Life the mother who lets her children play	K
So seriously busy trade and craft	E2
Life with her skill of a million years' perfection	E
To make her heart's delighted glorying	Q
Of sunlight and of clouds about the moon	E
Spring lighting her daffodils and corn	E
Ripening gold to ruddy and giant seas	K
And mountains sitting in their purple clothes	K
O life I am thinking of life the wonder	M
All blotcht out by a brutal thrust of fire	M
Like a midge that clumsy thumb squashes and smears	K
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Huff	F
Let me but see the show beginning though	M
You'ld mind me then O I would like you all	O
To watch how I should figure when the star	M
Brandishes over the whole air its flame	B3
Of thundering fire and naught but yellow rubbish	H3
Parcht on the perishing ground and there are tongues	K
Chapt with thirst glad to lap stinking ponds	K
And pale glaring faces spying about	E2
On the earth withering terror the only speech	Q3
Look for me then and see me stand alone	E
Easy and pleasant in the midst of it all	O
Did you not make your merry scoff of me	M
Was it your talk that when you shameless pair	M
Threw their wantoning in my face like dirt	E2
I had no heart against them but to grumble	Q2
You would be saying that I know But now	E
Now I believe it's time for you to see	M
My patient heart at last taking its wages	K
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Sollers	K
Pull up man Screw the brake on your running tongue	Q
Else it will rattle you down the tumbling way	K
This fellow's gone	E
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Merrick	Q
And one man's enough	F
With brain quagged axle deep in crazy mire	M
We won't have you beside him in his puddles	K
And calling out with him on the End of the World	E2
To heave you out with a vengeance	K
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Huff	F
What you want	E2
Have I not borne enough to make me know	M
I must be righted sometime And what else	K
Would break the hardy sin in them which lets	K
Their souls parade so daring and so tall	O
Under God's hate and mine What else could pay	K
For all my wrong but a blow of blazing anger	M
Striking down to shiver the earth and change	R3
Their strutting wickedness to horror and crying	Q
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Merrick	Q
Be quiet Huff If you mean to believe	S3
This dowser's stuff and join in his bedlam	B2
By God you'll have to reckon with my fist	E2
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SHALE comes in HUFF glares at him speechless but with wrath evidently working	Q
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Shale	L2
Where's the joker You is it Here's hot news	K
You've brought us all the valley's hissing aloud	E2
And makes as much of you falling into it	E2
As a pail of water would of a glowing coal	S
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Sollers	K
Don't you start burbling too Shale	L2
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Shale	L2
That's the word	E2
Burbling simmering ay and bumpy boiling	Q
All the women are mobbed together close	K
Under the witan trees and their full minds	K
Boil like so many pans slung on a fire	M
Why starlings trooping in a copse in fall	O
Could make no scandal like it	E2
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Merrick	Q
What is it man	E
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Shale	L2
End of the World The flying star End of the World	E2
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Sollers	K
They don't believe it though	M
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Shale	L2
What the whole place	K
Has gone just randy over it	E2
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Merrick	Q
Hold your noise	K
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Sollers	K
I shall be daft if this goes on	E
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Shale	L2
Ay so	M
The End of the World's been here You look as though	M
You'd startled lately And there's the virtuous man	E
How would End of the World suit our good Huff	F
Our old crab verjuice Huff	F
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HUFF seizing the DOWSER and bring him up in front of Shale	L2
Look at him there	M
This is the man I told of when you	B
Were talking small of sin You made it out	E2
Did you a fool's mere nasty game like dogs	K
That snuggle in muck and grin and roll themselves	K
With snorting pleasure Ah but you are wrong	Q
'Tis something that goes thrusting dreadfully	M
Its wilful bravery of evil against	E2
The worth and right of goodness in the world	E2
Ay do you see how his face still brags at me	M
And long it has been the time he's had to walk	Q
Lording about me with his wickedness	K
Do you know what he dared I had a wife	M3
A flighty pretty linnet headed girl	T3
But mine he practised on her with his eyes	K
He knew of luring glances and she went	E2
After his calling lust and all since then	E
They've lived together fleering in my face	K
Pleased in sight of the windows of my house	K
With doing wrong and making my disgrace	K
O but wait here with me wait till your news	K
Is not to be mistaken for the way	K
The earth buckles and singes like hot boards	K
You'll surely see how dreadful sin can be	M
Then when you mark these two running about	E2
With raging fear for what they did against me	M
Buzzing close to their souls stinging their hearts	K
And they like scampering beasts when clegs are fierce	K
Or flinging themselves low as the ground to writhe	D
Their arms hugging their desperate heads And then	E
You'll see what 'tis to be an upright man	E
Who keeps a patient anger for his wrongs	K
Thinking of judgment coming you will see that	E2
When you mark how my looks hunt these wretches	K
And smile upon their groans and posturing anguish	H3
O watch how calm I'll be when the blazing air	M
Judges their wickedness you watch me then	E
Looking delighted like a nobleman	E
Who sees his horse winning an easy race	K
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Merrick	Q
You fool Huff you believe it now	E
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Huff	F
You fool	N3
Merrick how should I not believe a thing	Q
That calls aloud on my mind and spirit and they	K
Answer to it like starving conquering soldiers	K
Told to break out and loot	E2
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Shale	L2
You vile old wasp	U3
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Sollers	K
We've talkt enough let's all go home and sleep	V3
There might be a fiend in the air about us one	E
Who pours his will into our minds to see	K
How we can frighten one another	M
Huff	F
A fiend	E2
Shale will soon have the flapping wings of a fiend	E2
And flaming wings beating about his head	E2
Ther'll be no air for Shale very soon now	E
But the breathing of a fiend the star's coming	Q
The star that breathes a horrible fury of fire	M
Like glaring fog into the empty night	E2
And in the gust of its wrath the world will soon	E
Shrivel and spin like paper in a furnace	K
I knew they both would have to pay me at last	E2
With sight of their damned souls for all my wrong	Q
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Shale	L2
Somebody stop his gab	W3
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Merrick seizing the DOWSER and shaking him	X3
Is it the truth we're in the way of the star	M
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A crowd of men and women burst in and shout confusedly	L2
Look out for the star	M
'Tis moving moving	Q
Grows as you stare at it	E2
Bigger than ever	M
Down it comes with a diving pounce	K
As though it had lookt for us and at last found us	K
O so near and coming so quick	Q
And how the buring hairs of its tail	L2
Do seem surely to quiver for speed	E2
We saw its great tail gwitch behind it	E2
'Tis come so near so gleaming near	M
The tail is wagging	Q
Come out and see	K
The star is wagging its tail and eyeing us	K
Like a cat huncht to leap on a bird	E2
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Merrick	Q
Out of my way and let me see for myself	A2
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They all begin to hustle out HUFF speaks in midst of the turmoil	L2
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Huff	F
Ay now begins the just man's reward	E2
And hatred of the evil thing	Q
Now is to be satisfied	E2
Wrong ventured out against me and braved	E2
And I'll be glad to see all breathing pleasure	M
Burn as foolishly to naught	E2
As a moth in candle flame	B3
If I but have my will to watch over those	K
Who injured me bawling hoarse heartless fear	M
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They are all gone but HUFF SHALE and the DOWSER	M
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Shale	L2
As for you let you and the women make	Q
Your howling scare of this I'll stand and laugh	Y2
But if it truly were the End of the World	E2
I'ld be the man to face it out not you	B
I who have let life go delighted through me	K
Not you who've sulkt away your chance of life	M3
In mumping about being paid for goodness	K
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Going	Q
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Huff after him	X3
You wait you wait	E2
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He follows the rest	E2
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Dowser alone	E
Naught but a plague of flies	K
I cannot do with noises and light fools	K
Terrified round me I must go out and think	Q
Where there is quiet and no one near O think	Q
Life that has done such wonders with its thinking	Q
And never daunted in imagining	Q
That has put on the sun and the shining night	E2
The flowering of the earth and tides of the sea	K
And irresistible rage of fate itself	A2
All these as garments for its spirit's journey	K
O now this life in the brute chance of things	K
Murder'd uselessly murder'd And naught else	K
For ever but senseless rounds of hurrying motion	E
That cannot glory in itself O no	M
I will not think of that I'll blind my brain	E
With fancying the splendours of destruction	E
When like a burr in the star's fiery mane	E
The crackling earth is caught and rusht along	Q
The forests on the mountains blazing so	M
That from the rocks of ore beneath them come	B2
White hot rivers of smelted metal pouring	Q
Across the plains to roar into the sea	K
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The curtain is lowered for a few moments only	K

Lascelles Abercrombie

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