Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUN-DOWN SONG, by JANIE SMITH RHYNE


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SUN-DOWN SONG, by                    
First Line: There's a shabby little shanty leaning
Last Line: "in his shack a lord and lady live together!"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


There's a shabby little shanty leaning tipsy on a hill
With an early lighted lamp already blinking;
There's a fresh and starchy lady waiting on the clean door sill;
And, looking on the fields, the lady's thinking:
"He has ploughed the live-long day and he has sweated in the sun;
Soon my cool and eager kiss he will be taking;
And when all his chores are finished and the feeding has been done,
He shall have the luscious pie I have been baking.
"O, he may be just a plowman and go plodding through his days;
He may toil and struggle through the toughest weather;
In his shack he's always lord of all the region he surveys;
In his shack a lord and lady live together!"





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