The Whipper-in

Thomas Hardy * Track #108 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

The Whipper-in by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The Whipper-in Annotated

My father was the whipper-in, -
&nbspIs still - if I’m not misled?
And now I see, where the hedge is thin,
&nbsp A little spot of red;
&nbsp Surely it is my father
&nbsp Going to the kennel-shed!

“I cursed and fought my father - aye,
&nbsp And sailed to a foreign land;
And feeling sorry, I’m back, to stay,
&nbsp Please God, as his helping hand.
&nbsp Surely it is my father
&nbsp Near where the kennels stand?”

“ - True. Whipper-in he used to be
&nbsp For twenty years or more;
And you did go away to sea
&nbsp As youths have done before.
&nbsp Yes, oddly enough that red there
&nbsp Is the very coat he wore.

“But he - he’s dead; was thrown somehow,
&nbsp And gave his back a crick,
And though that is his coat, ‘tis now
&nbsp The scarecrow of a rick;
&nbsp You’ll see when you get nearer -
&nbsp ’Tis spread out on a stick.

“You see, when all had settled down
&nbsp Your mother’s things were sold,
And she went back to her own town,
&nbsp And the coat, ate out with mould,
&nbsp Is now used by the farmer
&nbsp For scaring, as ‘tis old.”

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