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LXV. THE DYING STRAGGLER.
Resignation.
With many a roadside nibble's brief delayThe sheep went Fell-ward: far as eye could note,
A jostling multitude of woolly coat
And shy black faces filled the narrow way.
They passed, but in the dust a straggler lay
With jaundiced eye, and heavy-pouchèd throat.
Distempered so, no shepherd's antidote
Can bid the slow consuming sickness stay.
Left, and alone, and not to see again
His old loved pasture, yet so meek resigned,—
Ay, though his fellows bleat far up the slope.
Heaven grant, when stricken, cheated of my hope,
The Fell-side full before me, I may mind
That dying straggler in the mountain lane!
When the mountain sheep return in Spring to the Fells from the lowlands, it is no uncommon thing to see stragglers fall by the wayside. The jaundiced eye, and pouch beneath the throat, are sure signs of that incurable but slow wasting plague, the Fluke, which, in certain pastures, is the scourge of the flock who chance to feed there.
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