I HAD no objection at all To selling my household effects at auction On the village square. It gave my beloved flock the chance To get something which had belonged to me For a memorial. But that trunk which was struck off To Burchard, the grog-keeper! Did you know it contained the manuscripts Of a lifetime of sermons? And he burned them as waste paper. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PROSIT NEUJAHR by GEORGE SANTAYANA LINES TO WILLIAM LINLEY WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE SPARROW by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A DEAD HARVEST (IN KENSINGTON GARDENS) by ALICE MEYNELL ENOCH ARDEN by ALFRED TENNYSON TO DR. AIKIN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |