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IN THE STONE JUG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old days are gone
Last Line: Too shall come in with me out of the rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Sin; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The


OLD days are gone:
Lo! I go to find better;
Bright suns once shone.
Shall they never shine again?
Here's a queer inn for to-night, but the next one
I will contrive shall be freed from what's vext one
In this, and to-morrow, for all that's perplext one,
I shall arise with a head free of pain.

Here's luck, old friends,
Though to-night's proved the finish
And this tap now ends.
Shall we never brew again?
Aye, by my faith and the faith I have in you,
You who have kist and have laughed at the sin. You
Witch that I gambled and squandered to win, you
Too shall come in with me out of the rain.





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