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WILLIAM DEWY, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, / Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, / And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!
"Gone," I call them, gone for good, that group of local hearts and / heads; / Yet at mothy curfew-tide, / And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and / leads,