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` Twix ' the Lizard and Dover , We hand our stuff over , Though I may not inform how we do it , nor when ; But a light on each quarter Low down on the water Is well understanded by poor honest men . Even then we have dangers From meddlesome strangers , Who spy on our business and are not content To take a smooth answer , Except with a handspike ... And they say they are murdered by poor honest men ! To be drowned or be shot Is our natural lot , Why should we , moreover , be hanged in the end -- After all our great pains For to dangle in chains , As though we were smugglers , not poor honest men ? THE CONVERSION OF ST WILFRID Eddi 's Service Eddi , priest of St Wilfrid In the chapel at Manhood End , Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to attend . But the Saxons were keeping Christmas , And the night was stormy as well . Nobody came to service Though Eddi rang the bell . ` Wicked weather for walking , ' Said Eddi of Manhood End .