Anthony Crundle

Anthony Crundle written by John Drinkwater

Olton Pools, 1916

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Here lies the body of

ANTHONY CRUNDLE,
Farmer, of this parish,
Who died in 1849 at the age of 82.
"He delighted in music."
R.I.P.

And of

SUSAN,
For fifty-three years his wife.
Who died in 1860, aged 86.

ANTHONY CRUNDLE of Dorrington Wood
Played on a piccolo. Lord was he,
For seventy years, of sheaves that stood
Under the perry and cider tree;
Anthony Crundle, R.I.P.

And because he prospered with sickle and scythe,
With cattle afield and labouring ewe,
Anthony was uncommonly blithe,
And played of a night to himself and Sue
Anthony Crundle, eighty-two.

The earth to till, and a tune to play,
And Susan for fifty years and three,
And Dorrington Wood at the end of day . . .
May Providence do no worse by me;
Anthony Crundle, R.I.P.

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