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ILLIAM DEWY, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, Robert's kin, and Jolin'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,