Tuesday 11 January 2011

Evening Liturgy for the death of Thomas Hardy, OM - 1928

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1st Yokel: That Thomas Hardy's dead and gone then.
2nd Yokel: Ay, dead and gone as we all shall be.

1st Yokel: Should we open a bottle o' Hardy's Ale then?
2nd Yokel: Nay, the brewery's been taken over, as they all shall be.

1st Yokel: I mid as well sit by the fire.
2nd Yoke: Fire's gone out, as all fires shall.

1st Yokel: Then I mid as well sit on the five-bar gate out i' the thicket.
2nd Yokel: Five-bar gate was the last fuel for the fire. Replaced by a metal gate, as all shall be.

1st Yokel: Then shall we jolly fellows hark down school lane to White Horse for pint?
2nd Yokel: Spent all my groats at Christmas, as all shall have.

1st Yokel: Looks like an early night then.

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