U.A. Fanthorpe's "The Sheepdog"

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🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as U. A. Fanthorpe. Her poetry comments mainly on social issues.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Tuesday, December 28, 2021.
0:06.6	Coming up on the end of the year, hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and we wish everyone a wonderful
0:11.9	new year. Bring you a couple more poems before the end of 2021, though. And today's poem is by
0:18.7	UA Fanthorpe. Ursula Ascom UA Fanthorpe.
0:23.5	Ursula Ascombe Fanthorpe.
0:28.8	She was an English poet who lived from July of 1929 until April of 2009.
0:31.7	She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
0:35.7	And the poem that I'm going to read today is called the sheep dog.
0:39.9	It goes like this.
0:42.8	After the very bright light and the talking bird and the singing and the sky filled up
0:47.3	wings and then the silence, our lads says, we better go then.
0:53.8	Stay, chef. Good dog, stay.'
0:56.0	"'So I stayed with the sheep.
0:58.7	"'After they'd come back, it sounded grand what they'd seen.
1:02.1	"'Camels and kings and such, with presents,
1:05.0	"'human sort, not the kind you eat, and a baby.
1:08.6	"'Presence was for him. Our lads took him a lamb.
1:12.4	"'I had to stay behind with a sheep.
1:15.3	Pity, they didn't take me along too.
1:17.7	I'm good with lambs.
1:19.3	And the baby might have liked a dog after all that myrr and such.
1:25.8	So I was not familiar with this poem prior to this week, but I like it, and I wanted to share it.
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