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William Ernest Henley - Etching
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Two and thirty is the ploughman.
He`s a man of gallant inches,
And his hair is close and curly,
And his beard;
But his face is wan and sunken,
And his eyes are large and brilliant,
And his shoulder-blades are sharp,
And his knees.

He is weak of wits, religious,
Full of sentiment and yearning,
Gentle, faded—with a cough
And a snore.
When his wife (who was a widow,
And is many years his elder)
Fails to write, and that is always,
He desponds.

Let his melancholy wander,
And he`ll tell you pretty stories
Of the women that have wooed him
Long ago;
Or he`ll sing of bonnie lasses
Keeping sheep among the heather,
With a crackling, hackling click
In his voice.
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