StoryTitle("caps", "Jesus the Carpenter") ?>
the Carpenter"—"same trade as me"—strikes a high note in favour
of honest toil. (1848-.)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Isn't this Joseph's son?\"—ay, it is He;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Joseph the carpenter—same trade as me—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I thought as I'd find it—I knew it was here—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But my sight's getting queer.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I don't know right where as His shed must ha' stood—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But often, as I've been a-planing my wood,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've took off my hat, just with thinking of He", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At the same work as me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He warn't that set up that He couldn't stoop down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And work in the country for folks in the town;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I'll warrant He felt a bit pride, like I've done,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At a good job begun.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The parson he knows that I'll not make too free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But on Sunday I feels as pleased as can be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I wears my clean smock, and sits in a pew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And has taught a few.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I think of as how not the parson hissen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As is teacher and father and shepherd o' men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not he knows as much of the Lord in that shed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where He earned His own bread.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when I goes home to my missus, says she,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Are ye wanting your key?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For she knows my queer ways, and my love for the shed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(We've been forty years wed).", "") ?>
PagePoem(115, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So I comes right away by mysen, with the book,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I turns the old pages and has a good look", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the text as I've found, as tells me as He", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Were the same trade as me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why don't I mark it? Ah, many say so,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I think I'd as lief, with your leaves, let it go:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It do seem that nice when I fall on it sudden—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Unexpected, you know!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Catherine C. Liddell.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>