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“In The Stone Jug” by Ford Madox Ford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (17 Dec 187326 Jun 1939)
Old ays are gone:
Lo! I go to find better;
Bright suns once shone.
Shall they never shine again?
Here’s a queer inn for to-night, but the next one
I will contrive shall be freed from what’s vext one
In this, and to-morrow, for all that’s perplext one,
I shall arise with a head free of pain.
Here’s luck, old friends,
Though to-night’s proved the finish
And this tap now ends.
Shall we never brew again?
Aye, by my faith and the faith I have in you,
You who have kist and have laughed at the sin. You
Witch that I gambled and squandered to win, you
Too shall come in with me out ofthe rain.