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Shirley Barker. Rivers Parting
Rivers Parting
Table of Contents
1. “Such glory I had in loving”
2. There we take England
FROM OLD THORNY
3. The Book of Joan
In the time of the Great Crossings
4. Birth and beginning
5. By one who was there
LEAVES FROM JOHN SCARLOCK’S DIARY, 1644-1659
6. School a plowman
7. An English corpse
8. To see for myself
9. A dance on the green
10. I seen a ghost
11. Goose Fair marriage
12. Heartbreak Hill
13. Lovers’ meeting
14. The hour of my death
15. London’s burning!
16. Their proper scorpions
17. “Turn again, traveler!”
All the years
18. No need for a gypsy
19. My sins and go to hell
20. The foolish girl
21. Things of no matter
22. The manner of all the earth
23. The holly and the ivy
24. It came with a lass
25. New Hampshire man
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Shirley Barker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“No,” said John, his hand cupped around his tankard, staring into it.
“Then you didn’t hear my story. But you look like the man I told it for. Where do you live and what do you do there?”
