Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MARKET, by JAMES STEPHENS


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First Line: A man said to me at the fair
Last Line: With the sixpence -- dirty lout!
Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets


A man said to me at the fair
-- If you have got a poet's tongue
Tumble up and chant the air
That the Stars of Morning sung:

-- I'll pay you, if you sing it nice,
A penny-piece. -- I answered flat,
-- Sixpence is the proper price
For a ballad such as that. --

But he stared and wagged his head,
Growling as he passed along
-- Sixpence! Why I'd see you dead
Before I pay that for a song. --

I saw him buy three pints of stout
With the sixpence -- dirty lout!





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