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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.