Thomas Logge
(1939)- Music by Theodore Chanler
- Text by Walter De la Mare
"Thomas Logge" is the fourth song of Theodore Chanler's song cycle Eight Epitaphs, which sets the text of Walter de la Mare.
Thomas Logge
by Walter de la Mare
Here lies Thomas Logge--a rascally dogge
A poor useless creature--by choice as by nature;
Who never served God--for kindness or Rod;
Who, for pleasure or penny, -- never did any
Work in his life--but to marry a Wife,
And live aye in strife:
And all this he says--at the end of his days
Lest some fine canting pen
Should be at him again