Love, Love, my dear, to-day, If the ship’s in the bay, If the bird has come your way That sings on summer trees; When his song faileth And the ship saileth No voice availeth To call back these. SATURDAY MARKET Bury your heart in some deep green hollow Or hide it up in a kind old tree Better still, give it the swallow When she goes over the sea. In Saturday Market there’s eggs a’plenty And dead-alive ducks with their legs tied down, Grey old gaffers and boys of twenty-- Girls and the women of the town-- Pitchers and sugar-sticks, ribbons and laces, Posies and whips and dicky-birds’ seed, Silver pieces and smiling faces, In Saturday Market they’ve all they need. What were you showing in Saturday Market That set it grinning from end to end Girls and gaffers and boys of twenty--? Cover it close with your shawl, my friend-- Hasten you home with the laugh behind you, Over the down--, out of sight, Fasten your door, though no one will find you No one will look on a Market night. See, you, the shawl is wet, take out from under The red dead thing--. In the white of the moon On the flags does it stir again? Well, and no wonder! Best make an end of it; bury it soon. If there is blood on the hearth who’ll know it? Or blood on the stairs, When a murder is over and done why show it? In Saturday Market nobody cares. Then lie you straight on your bed for a short, short weeping And still, for a long, long rest, There’s never a one in the town so sure of sleeping As you, in the house on the down with a hole in your breast. Think no more of the swallow, Forget, you, the sea, Never again remember the deep green hollow Or the top of the kind old tree! ARRACOMBE WOOD Some said, because he wud’n spaik Any words to women but Yes and No, Nor put out his hand for Parson to shake He mun be bird-witted. But I do go By the lie of the barley that he did sow, And I wish no better thing than to hold a rake Like Dave, in his time, or to see him mow.