Last night your watchdog barked all night,
So once you rose and lit the light.
It wasn't someone at your locks.
No, in your rural letter box
I leave this note without a stamp
To tell you it was just a tramp
Who used your pasture for a camp.
There, pointed like the pip of spades,
The young spruce made a suite of glades
‘Just’ implies that he does not have an important position in society. In a world where prejudice is rife, a homeless person may often seem worthless. This attitude will become more evident at the end of the poem.
An Unstamped Letter on our Rural Leather Box