In distant countries I have been,

    And yet I  often seen

    A hy man, a man full grown

    eep in the public roads alone.

    But such a one, on English ground,

    And in t;

    Along the broad high-way he came,

    ears .

    Sturdy hough he was sad;

    And in his arms a lamb he had.

    urned aside,

    As if o hide:

    t he made essay

    to ears away.

    I followd ;My friend

    quot; ails you? w;

    --quot;Sy lamb,

    ears to ?ow.

    to-day I fetche rock;

    of all my ?ock.

    hen I was young, a single man.

    And after youthful follies ran,

    ttle given to care and t,

    Yet, so it ;

    And other sheep from her I raised,

    As  see,

    And then I married, and was rich

    As I could wiso be;

    Of sheep I numberd a full score,

    And every year encreasd my store.

    Year after year my stock it grew,

    And from this single ewe,

    Full ?fty comely sheep I raised,

    As s a ?ock as ever grazed!

    Upon tain did they feed;

    t hrive.

    --ty lamb of all my store

    Is all t is alive:

    And no if we die,

    And perisy.

    ten co feed,

    ime of need!

    My pride amed, and in our grief,

    I of the parish askd relief.

    thy man;

    My sain fed,

    And it  t took

    o buy us bread:quot;

    quot;Do to you,quot;

    t;o t;

    I sold a shey had said,

    And bougtle children brea