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JACOB TODD by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE BE THE ASHES OF JACOB TODD
Last Line: HE BEDDED FOR YE JUDGEMENT DAY.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS; LABOR & LABORERS; WORK; WORKERS;

Here be the ashes of Jacob Todd,
Sexton now in the land of Nod.
Digging he lived, and digging died,
Pick, mattock, spade, and nought beside.
Here oft at evening he would sit
Tired with his toil, and proud of it;
Watching the pretty Robins flit.
Now slumbers he as deep as they
He bedded for ye Judgement Day.



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