The Yellow Nineties Online The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 6 July 1895 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2020</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>YBV6_32po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> <persName>Henry Harland</persName> </editor> <author>Edgar Prestage</author> <title>The Digger John Lane London Copeland & Day Boston July 1895 Prestage, Edgar. "The Digger." The Yellow Book, vol. 6, July 1895, pp. 283-85. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2010-2014. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020. https://1890s.ca/YBV6_prestage_digger/

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The Digger<lb/> From the Portuguese of Guerra Junqueiro By Edgar Prestage THE cock crows this December night . . . The cock crows hoarsely this dark night . . . —Misery ! oh, misery ! Villager sleep not ! Call the wight . . . Black sorrow, hasten, call the wight ! . . . —Misery ! oh, misery ! The digger is thy slave of right, Out with his hoe, for he of right, Black sorrow, is a slave to thee ! Howls the wind, the nests are shaking . . . In dread night the nests are shaking . . . —Misery ! oh, misery! Cold as ermine snow is flaking . . . In the dusk the snow is flaking . . . —Misery ! oh, misery ! Maledict his way is making, Hoe on shoulder he is making, That digger, a dark phantom he ! The 284 The Digger The morning star doth purple grow . . . The morning star doth pallid grow . . . —Misery ! oh, misery ! The hills are bare, the frost below, And stiff as bronze the frost below ! —Misery ! oh, misery ! How grimly bends he o'er his hoe, And tears and trenches with his hoe, That digger, a dark phantom he ! He digs and digs from dawn of day Until the stroke of middle day . . . —Misery ! oh, misery ! Then standing, sadly sets to pray, Upon the lonely slope to pray, —Misery ! oh, misery ! And putting down his hoe to say " Hail Mary ! " silently to say, That digger, a dark phantom he ! He digs the savage mountainside, From dawn to even, the mountainside . . . —Misery ! oh, misery ! And with some broth Thou dost requite Him, God ! and with six bairns requite, —Misery ! oh, misery ! The Angelus rings through the night, " Blessed be Thou, Heavenly Sire, this night ! " The digger cries, a phantom he ! Ten By Edgar Prestage 285 Ten hills are dug . . . where is the wheat ? Six mouths begotten . . . where is the wheat ? —Misery ! oh, misery ! Upon his door comes Hunger's beat, And Death's re-echoing the beat . . . —Misery ! oh, misery ! "The peace of God, I now entreat ! The peace of God, I now entreat ! " The digger sighed, and ceased to dree !