I'm married, have a family, twelve young And helpless innocents to clothe and keep; I have my daily calls on every side, Churches remote and gleve and pasture wide, Great herds of breeding cattle, ghostly sheep- All to be watched and cared for, clipt and fed, Grain to be winnowed, compost to be spread;- Wanted all day in Shippon and in stall, What time have I to serve the "Ideal" withal?
"Love's Comedy"
Henrik Ibsen
Has the flood washed into the Shippon?
"King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë"
Gordon Bottomley