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

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ACT II	A
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As before a little while after The room is empty when the curtain goes up SOLLERS runs in and paces about but stops short when he catches sight of a pot dog on the mantlepiece	B
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Sollers	B
The pace it is coming down What to do now	C
My brain has stopt it's like a clock that's fallen	D
Out of a window and broke all its cogs	B
Where's that old cider Vine would have us pay	E
Twopence a glass for Let's try how it smells	B
Old Foxwhelp and a humming stingo it is	B
To the pot dog	F
Hullo you Whaty are you grinning at	G
I know	H
There'll be no score against me for this drink	I
Of that score I've drunk it down for a week	J
With every gulp of cider and every gulp	K
Was half the beauty it should have been the score	L
So scratcht my swallowing throat like a wasp in the drink	I
And I need never have heeded it	M
Old grinning dog You've seen me happy here	N
And now all's done But do you know this too	O
That I can break you now and never called	P
To pay for you Throwing the dog on the floor	L
I shall be savage soon	Q
We're leaving all this O and it was so pleasant	R
Here in here of an evening Smash	S
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He sweeps a lot of crockery on to the floor	L
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It's all no good Let's make a wreck of it all	T
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Picking up a chair and swinging it	M
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Damn me Now I'm forgetting to drink and soon	Q
'Twill be too late Where's there a mug not shivered	U
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He goes to draw himself cider MERRICK rushes in	V
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Merrick	W
You at the barrels too Out of the road	X
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He pushes SOLLERS away and spills his mug	Y
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Sollers	B
Go and kick out of door you black donkey	Z
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Merrick	W
Let me come at the vessel will you	O
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They wrestle savagely	Z
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SOllers	B
Keep off	A2
I'm the first here Lap what you've spilt of mine	B2
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Merrick	W
You with your chiselling and screw driving	C2
Your wooden work you bidding me the man	D2
Who hammers a meaning into red hot iron	E2
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VINE comes in slowly He is weeping the two wrestlers stop and stare at him as he sits down and holds his head in his hands sobbing	C2
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Vine O this is a cruel affair	F2
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Sillers	B
Here's Vine crying	C2
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Vine	B2
I've seen the moon	Q
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Merrick	W
The moon 'Tisn't the moon	Q
That's tumbling on us but yon raging star	G2
What notion now is clotted in your head	H2
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Vine	B2
I've seen the moon it has nigh broke my heart	I2
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Sollers	B
Not the moon too jumping out of her ways	B
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Vine	B2
No no but going quietly and shining	C2
Pushing away a flimsy gentle cloud	J2
That would drift smoky round her fending it off	A2
Wuth steady rounds of blue and yellow light	K2
It was not much to see She was no more	L
Than a curved bit of silver rind But I	A
Never before so noted her	L2
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Sollers	B
What he said	H2
The dowser	L2
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Merrick	W
Ay about his yellowhammers	B
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Sollers	B
And there's a kind of stifle in the air	L2
Already	Z
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Merrick	W
It seems to me my breathing goes	B
All hot down my windpipe but as cider	L2
Mulled and steaming travels down my swallow	H
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Sollers	B
And a queer racing through my ears of blood	M2
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Herrick	W
I wonder is the star come closer still	N2
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Sollers	B
O close I know and viciously heading down	O2
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Vine	B2
She was so silver and the sun had left	P2
A kind of tawny red a dust of fine	B2
Thin light upon the blue where she was lying	C2
Just a curled paring of the moon amid	Q2
The faint grey cloud that set the gleaming wheel	R2
Around the tilted slip of shining silver	L2
O it did seem to me so safe and homely	Z
The moon quietly going about the earth	S2
It's a rare place we have to live in here	L2
And life is such a comfortable thing	C2
And what's the sense of it all Naught but to make	T2
Cruel as may be the slaughtering of it	M
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Sollers	B
It beats my mind	U2
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He begins to walk up and down desparately	Z
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Merrick	W
'Twas bound to come sometime	V2
Bound to come I suppose 'Tis a poor thing	C2
For us to fall plumb in the chance of it	M
But now or another time 'twas bound to be	Z
I have been thinking back When I was a lad	W2
I was delighted with my life there seemed	X2
Naught but things to enjoy Say we were bathing	C2
There'ld be the cool smell of the water and cool	Z
The splashing under the trees but I did loathe	Y2
The sinking mud slithering round my feet	Z2
And I did love to loathe it so And then	A3
We'ld troop to kill a wasp's nest and for sure	L2
I would be stung and if I liked the dusk	B3
And singing and the game of it all I loved	C3
The smart of the stings and fleeing the buzzing furies	B
And sometimes I'ld be looking at myself	D3
Making so much of everything there'ld seem	E3
A part of me speaking about myself	D3
' You know this is much more than being happy	Z
'Tis hunger of some power in you that lives	B
On your heart's welcome for all sorts of luck	F3
But always looks beyond you for its meaning '	-
And that's the way the world's kept going on	G3
I believe now Misery and delight	K2
Have both had liking welcome from it both	H3
Have made the world keen to be glad and sorry	Z
For why It felt the living power thrive	I3
The more it made everything good and bad	W2
Its own belonging forged to its own affair	L2
The living power that would do wonders some day	E
I don't know if you take me	Z
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Sollers	B
I do fine	B2
I've felt the very thought go through my mind	U2
When I was at my wains though 'twas a thing	C2
Of such a flight I could not read its colour	L2
Why was I like a man sworn to a thing	C2
Working to have my wains in every curve	J3
Ay every teneon right and as they should be	Z
Not for myself not even for those wains	B
But to keep in me living at its best	K3
The skill that must go forward and shape the world	L3
Helping it on to make some masterpiece	B
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Merrick	W
And never was there aught to come of it	M
The world was always looking to use its life	M3
In some great handsome way at last And now	C
We are just fooled There never was any good	N3
In the world going on or being at all	Z
The fine things life has plotted to do are worth	S2
A rotten toadstool kickt to flying bits	B
End of the World Ay and the end of a joke	O3
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Vine	B2
Well Huff's the man for this turn	E2
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Merrick	W
Ay the good man	D2
He could but grunt when times were pleasant now	C
There's misery enough to make him trumpet	P3
And yet by God he shan't come blowing his horn	Q3
Over my misery	Z
We are just fooled did I say We fooled ourselves	B
Looking for worth in what was still to come	R3
And now there'a a stop to our innings Well that's fair	L2
I've been a living man and might have been	V
Nothing at all I've had the world about me	Z
And felt it as my own concern What else	B
Should I be crying for I've had my turn	E2
The world may be for the sake of naught at last	S3
But it has been for my sake I've had that	G
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He sits again and broods	B
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Sollers	B
I can't stay here I must be where my sight	K2
May silence with its business all my thinking	C2
Though it will be the star plunged down so close	B
It puffs its flaming vengeance in my face	B
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He goes	B
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Vine	B2
I wish there were someone who had done me wrong	T3
Like Huff with his wife and Shale I wish there were	L2
Somebody I would like to see go crazed	U3
With staring fright I'ld have my pleasure then	A3
Of living on into the End of the World	L3
But there is no one at all for me no one	D
Now my poor wife is gone	V3
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Merrick	W
Why what did she	Z
To harm you	O
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Vine	B2
Didn't she marry me It's true	O
She made it come all right She died at last	S3
Besides it would be wasting wishes on her	L2
To be in hopes of her weeping at this	B
She'ld have her hands on her hops and her tongue jumping	C2
As nimble as a stoat delighting round	W3
The way the world's to be terrible and tormented	Q2
Ay but I'll have a thing to tell her now	C
When she begins to ask the news I'll say	B
' You've misst such a show as never was nor will be	Z
A roaring great affair of death and ruin	D
And I was there the world smasht to sparkles '	-
O I can see her vext at that	G
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MERRICK has been sunk in thought during this but VINE seems to brighten at this notion and speaks quite cheerfully to HUFF who now comes in looking mopish and sits down	O2
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Vine	B2
We've all been envying you Huff You're well off	A2
You with your goodness and your enemies	B
Showing you how to relish it with their terror	L2
When do you mean the gibing is to start	I2
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Huff	X3
There's time enough	X3
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Vine	B2
O do they still hold out	Y3
If they should be for spiting you to the last	S3
You'ld best keep on at them think out a list	Z3
Of frantic things for them to do when air	L2
Is scorching smother and the sin they did	Q2
Frightens their hearts You'll shout them into fear	L2
I undertake if you find breath enough	X3
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Huff	X3
You have the breath What's all your pester for	L2
You leave me be	Z
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Vine	B2
Why you're to do for me	Z
What I can't do myself And yet it's hard	A4
To make out where Shale hurt you What's the sum	R3
Of all he did to you Got you quit of a marriage	B4
Without the upset of a funeral	Z
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Huff	X3
Wyy need you blurt your rambling mind at me	Z
Let me bide quiet in my thought awhile	Z
And it's a little while we have for thought	C4
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Merrick	W
I know your thought Paddling round and around	W3
Like a squirrel working in a spinning cage	D4
With his neck stretcht to have his chin poke up	E4
And silly feet busy and always going	C2
Paddling round the story of your good life	M3
Your small good life and how the decent men	A3
Have jeered at your wry antic	W
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Huff	X3
My good life	M3
And what good has my goodness been to me	Z
You show me that Somebody show me that	G
A caterpillar munching a cabbage heart	I2
Always drudging further and further from	R3
The sounds and lights of the world never abroad	F4
Nor flying free in warmth and air sweet smelling	C2
A crawling caterpillar eating his life	M3
In a deaf dark that's my gain of goodness	B
And it's too late to hatch out now	C
I can but fancy what I might have been	V
I scarce know how to sin But I believe	G4
A long while back I did come near to it	M
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Merrick	W
Well done O but I should have guesst all this	B
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Huff	X3
I was in Droitwich and the sight of the place	B
Is where they cook the brine a long dark shed	H2
Hot as an oven full of a grey steam	E3
And ruddy light that leaks out of the furnace	B
And stirring the troughs ladling the brine that boils	B
As thick as treacle a double standing row	L2
Women boldly talking in wicked jokes	B
All day long I went to see 'em It was	B
A wonderful rousing sight Not one of them	H4
Was really wearing clothes half of a sack	I4
Pinned in an apron was enough for most	J4
And here and there might be a petticoat	K4
But nothing in the way of bodices	B
O they knew words to shame a carter's face	B
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Merrick	W
This is the thought you would be quiet in	V
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Huff	X3
Where else can I be quiet Now there's an end	L4
Of daring 'tis the one place my life has made	M4
Where I may try to dare in thought I mind	U2
When I stood in the midst of those bare women	D
All at once outburst with a rising buzz	B
A mob of flying thoughts was wild in me	Z
Things I might do swarmed in my brain pell mell	Z
Like a heap of flies kickt into humming cloud	J2
I beat them down and now I cannot tell	Z
For certain what they were I can call up	E4
Naught venturesome and darting like their style	Z
Very tame braveries now O Shale's the man	D2
To smile upon the End of the World 'tis Shale	Z
Has lived the bold stiff fashion and filled himself	D3
With thinking pride in what a man may do	O
I wish I had seen those women more than once	B
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Vine	B2
Well here's an upside down This is old Huff	X3
What have you been in your heart all these years	B
The man you were or the new man you are	L2
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Huff	X3
Just a dead flesh	N4
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Merrick	W
Nay Huff the good man at least	O4
Was something alive though snarling like trapt vermin	V
But this What's this for the figure of a man	D2
'Tis a boy's smutty picture on a wall	Z
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Huff	X3
I was alive was I Like a blind bird	U
That flies and cannot see the flight it takes	B
Feeling it with mere rowing of its wings	B
But Shale he's had a stirring sense of what he is	B
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Shouting outside Then SOLLERS walks in again very quiet and steady He stands in the middle looking down on the floor	L2
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Vine	B2
What do they holla for there	L2
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Sollers	B
The earth	S2
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Merrick	W
The earth	S2
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Sollers	B
The earth's afire	L2
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Huff	X3
The earth blazing already	Z
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Shouts again	A3
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O not so soon as this	B
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Vine	B2
What sort of fire	L2
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SOllers	B
The earth has caught the heat of the star you fool	Z
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Merrick	W
I know there's come some dazzle in your eyes	B
From facing to the star a lamp would do it	M
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Huff	X3
It will be that Your sight being so strained	P4
Is flashing of itself	D3
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Sollers	B
Way what you like	Q4
There's a red flare out of the land beyond	R4
Looking over the hills into our valley	Z
The thing's begun 'tis certain Go and see	Z
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Vine	B2
I won't see that I will stay here	L2
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Sollers	B
Ay creep	S4
Into your oven You'll be cooler there	L2
O my God we'll all be coals in an hour	L2
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Shouts again	A3
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Huff	X3
And I have naught to stand in my heart upright	K2
And vow it made my living time worth more	L2
Than if my time had been death in a grave	T4
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Several persons run in	V
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The Crown	O2
The river's the place	B
The only safe place now	C
Best all charge down to the river	L2
For there's a blaze	B
A travelling blaze comes racing along the earth	S2
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Sollers	B
'Tis true The air's red hot above the hills	B
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The Crown	O2
Ay but he burning now crests the hill tops	B
In quiver of yellow flame	U4
And a great smoke	O3
Waving and tumbling upward	U
The river now	C
The only place we have not be be roasted	M2
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Merrick	W
And what will make us water rats or otters	B
To keep our breath still living through a dive	I3
That lasts until the earth's burnt out Or how	C
Would that trick serve when we stand up to gasp	V4
And find the star waiting for our plunged heads	B
To knock them into pummy	U4
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Vine	B2
Scarce more dazed	U3
I'ld be with that than now I shall be bound	W3
When I'm to give my wife the tale of it all	Z
To be divising more of this to do	O
My mind won't carry	Z
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Huff	X3
O ashamed I am	U4
Ashamed It needn't have been downright fears	B
Such as the braving men the like of Shale	Z
Do easily and smile keeping them up	E4
If I could look back to one manful hour	L2
Of romping in the face of all my goodness	B
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SHALE comes in dragging Mrs HUFF by the hand	W4
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Shale	Z
Huff Where's Huff Huff you must take her back	I4
You'll take her back She's yours I give her up	E4
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Merrick	W
Belike here's something bold again	A3
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Mrs Huff to SHALE	Z
Once more	L2
Listen	D
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Shale	Z
I will not listen There's no time	U4
For aught but giving you back where you belong	T3
And that's with you Huff Take her	L2
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Huff	X3
Here is depth	X4
I cannot see to Is it your last fling	C2
The dolt I am in these things What's this way	B
You've found of living wickedly to the end	L4
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Shale	Z
Scorn as you please but take her back man take her	L2
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Huff	X3
But she's my wife Take her back now What for	L2
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Mrs Huff	X3
What for Have you not known of thieves that throw	L2
Their robbery down soon as they hear a step	Y4
Sounding behind them on the road and run	D
A long way off and pull an honest face	B
Ay see Shale's eyes practising baby looks	B
He never stole not he	Z
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Shale	Z
Don't hear her talk	Z4
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Mrs Huff	X3
But he was a talker once Love was the thing	C2
And love he swore would make the wrong go right	K2
And Huff was a kind of devil and that's true	O
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Huff	X3
What I've been devilish and never knew	O
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Mrs Huff	X3
The devil in the world that hates all love
But Shale said he'd the love in him would hold
If the world's frame and the fate of men were crackt
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Shale	Z
What I said
Whoever thought the world was going to crack	I4
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Mrs Huff	X3
And now he hears someone move behind him	U4
They'll say perhaps ' You stole this ' Down it goes	B
Thrown to the ditry road thrown to Huff	X3
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Shale	Z
Yes to the owner	L2
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Mrs Huff	X3
It was not such brave thieving	C2
You did not take me from my owner Shale	Z
There's an old robber will do that some day
Not you	O
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Vine	B2
Were you thinking of me then missis	B
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Mrs Huff still to SHALE	Z
You found me lost in the dirt I was with Huff	X3
You lifted me from there and there again	A3
Like a frightened urchin you're for throwing me	Z
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Shale	Z
Let it be that I'm firm	U4
Not to have you about me when the thing	C2
Whatever it is that's standing now behind
The burning of the world comes out on us	B
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Huff	X3
The way men cheat This windle stalk was he	Z
Would hold a show of spirit for the world
To study while it ruined Make what you please	B
Of your short wrangle here but leave me out
I have my thoughts O far enough from this	B
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Turning away
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Shale seizing him	U4
You shall not put me off I tell you Huff	X3
You are to take her back now	C
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Huff	X3
Take her back	I4
And what has she to do with what I want
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Shale	Z
Isn't she yours I must be quit of her	L2
I'll not be in the risk of keeping her	L2
She's yours	B
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Huff	X3
And what's the good of her now to me	Z
What's the good of a woman whom I've married
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During this WARP the molecatcher has come in	V
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Warp
Shale and Huff at their old pother again	A3
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Merrick	W
The molecather	L2
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Sollers	B
Warp have you travelled far	L2
Is it through frenzy and ghastly crowds you've come	U4
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Vine	B2
Have you got dreadful things to tell us Warp
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Warp
Why no	L2
But seemingly you'ld have had news for me	Z
If I'd come later Is Huff to murder Shale	Z
Or Shale for murdering Huff One way or 'tother	L2
'Tis time 'twas settled surely Mrs Huff	X3
They're neither of them worth you here's your health
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Draws and drinks	B
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Huff	X3
Where have you been Are you not new from folk	O3
That throng together in a pelting horror	L2
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Warp
Do you think the whole land hearkens to the flurry	L2
Of an old dog biting at a young dog's throat
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Merrick	W
No no Not their shrill yapping you've not heard
The world's near to be blasted
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Warp
No mutter of it
I am from walking the whole ground I trap
And there's no likeness of it but the moles	B
I've turned up dead and dried out of three counties	B
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Sollers	B
Why but the fire that's eating the whole earth	S2
The breath of it is scarlet in the sky	A
You must have seen that
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Warp
But what's taken you	O
You are like boys that go to hunt for ghosts	B
And turn the scuttle of rats to a roused demon	D
Crawling to shut the door of the barn they search
Fire Yes fire is playing a pretty game	U4
Yonder and has its golden fun to itself	D3
Seemingly	L2
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Sollers	B
You don't know what 'tis that burns	B
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Warp
Call me a mole and not a molecatcher	L2
If I do not It is a rick that burns	B
And a strange thing I'll count it if the rick	W
Be not old Huff's	B
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Sollers	B
That flare a fired stack	I4
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Huff	X3
Only one of my ricks alight O Glory	L2
There may be chance for me yet
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Merrick	W
Best take the train
To Droitwich Huff	X3
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Vine at the door	L2
It would be like a stack	I4
But for the star	L2
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Sollers to WARP
Yes as you're so clever	L2
You can talk down maybe yon brandishing star	L2
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Warp
O 'tis the star has flickt your brains Indeed
The tail swings long enough to night for that
Well look your best at it 'tis off again	A3
To go its rounds they tell me from now on	G3
And the next time it swaggers in our sky	A
The moles a long while will have tired themsleves	B
Of having their easy joke with me	L2
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A pause	B
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Merrick	W
You mean
The flight of the star is from us	B
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Sollers	B
But the world
The whole world reckons on it battering us	B
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Warp
Who told you that
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Sollers	B
A dowser	L2
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Merrick	W
Where's he gone	V3
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Warp
A dowser say a trampling conjurer	L2
You'll believe aught if you believe a dowser	L2
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Sollers	B
I had it in me to be doubting him	U4
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Merrick	W
The noise you made was like that But I knew	O
You'ld laugh at me so sure you were the world
Would shiver like a bursting grindlestone	O
Else I'ld have said out loud 'twas a fool's whimsy	L2
	-
Vine	O
Where are you now What am I now to think	I
Your minds run round in puzzles like chased hares	B
I cannot sight them	U4
	-
Merrick	W
Think of going to bed
	-
Sollers	B
And dreaming prices for your pigs	B
	-
Merrick	W
O Warp
You should have seen Vine crying The moon he said
The silver moon Just like an onion 'twas	B
To stir the water in his eyes	B
	-
Sollers	B
He's left
A puddle of his tears where he was droopt
Over the table	Z
	-
Vine	O
There's to be no ruin	O
But what's the word of a molecatcher to crow	L2
So ringing over a dowser's word
	-
Warp
I'll tell you	O
These dowsers live on lies my trade's the truth
I can read moles and the way they've dug their journeys	B
Where you'ld not see a wrinkle	Z
	-
Vine	O
And he knows	B
The buried water	L2
	-
Warp
There's always buried water	L2
If you prod deep enough A dowser finds	B
Because the whole earth's floating like a raft
What does he know A twitching in this thews	B
A dog asleep knows that much What I know	L2
I've learnt and if I'd learnt it wrong I'ld starve
And if I'm right about the grubbing moles	B
Won't I be right for news of walking men	O
	-
Merrick	W
Of course you're right Let's put the whole thing by	A
And have a pleasant drink	I
	-
Shale to Mrs HUFF	X3
You must be tired
With all this story Shall we be off for home	U4
	-
Huff	X3
You brass You don't go now with her She's mine	O
You gave her up	E4
	-
Shale	Z
And you made nothing of her	L2
	-
To Mrs Huff	X3
Come on	O
	-
Mrs Huff	X3
Warp will you do a thing for me	L2
	-
Warp
A hundred things	B
	-
Mrs Huff	X3
Then slap me these cur dogs	B
	-
Warp
I will Where will I slap them and which first
	-
Mrs Huff	X3
Maybe 'twill do if you but laugh at them	U4
	-
Warp
I'll try for that but they are not good jokes	B
Though there's a kind of monkey look about them	U4
	-
Mrs Huff	X3
They thinking I'ld be near one or the other	L2
After this night Will I be made no more	L2
Than clay that children puddle to their minds	B
Moulding it what they fancy Shale was brave	T4
He made a bogy and defied it till	Z
He frightened of his work and ran away
But Huff Huff was for modelling wickedly	L2
	-
Huff	X3
Who told you that
	-
Mrs Huff	X3
I need no one's telling	C2
I was your wife once Don't I know your goodness	B
A stupid heart gone sour with jealousy	L2
To feel its blood too dull and thick for sinning	C2
Yes Huff would figure a wicked thought but had
No notion how and flung the clay aside
O they were gaudy colours both But now	O
Fear has bleacht their swagger and left them blank
Fear of a loon that cried End of the World
	-
Huff	X3
Shale do you know what we're to do	O
	-
Shale	Z
I'ld like	Q4
To have the handling of that dowser man	O
	-
Huff	X3
Just that my lad just that
	-
Warp
And your fired rick	W
	-
Huff	X3
Let it be blazes Quick Shale after him	U4
I'll tramp the nght out but I'll take the rogue
	-
Shale to the others	B
You wait and see us haul him by the ears	B
And swim the blatherer in Huff's farm yard pond
	-
As HUFF and SHALE go out they see the comet before them	U4
	-
Huff	X3
The devil's own star is tha
	-
Shale	Z
And floats as calm	U4
As a pike basking	C2
	-
Huff	X3
There shouldn't be such stars	B
	-
Shale	Z
Neither such dowsers and we'll learn him that
	-
They go off together	L2
	-
Sollers	B
Why the star's dwindling now surely	L2
	-
Merrick	W
O small	Z
And dull now to the glowing size it was	B
	-
Vine	O
But is it certain there'll be nothing smasht
Not even a house knockt roaring down in crumbles	B
And I did think I'ld open my wife's mouth
With envy of the dreadful things I'd seen	O
	-
Curtain	O

Lascelles Abercrombie

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