When our downcast looks be smilele… Under others’ wrongs an’ slightens… When our daily deeds be guileless, An’ do meet unkind requitens, You can meake us zome amends

Pentridge!—oh! my heart’s a-zwelle… Vull o’ jay wi’ vo’k a-tellen Any news o’ thik wold pleaece, An’ the boughy hedges round it, An’ the river that do bound it

There’s thik wold hag, Moll Brown… I wish the ugly sly wold witch Would tumble over into ditch; I woulden pull her out not very va… No, no. I don’t think she’s a bit…

In the common by our hwome There wer freely-open room, Vor our litty veet to roam By the vuzzen out in bloom. That wi’ prickles kept our lags

We took the apples in last week, An’ got, by night, zome eaechen ba… A-stoopen down all day to pick So many up in mawns an’ zacks. An’ there wer Liz so proud an’ pr…

Guy Faux’s night, dost know, we c… A-putten on our woldest traps, Went up the highest o’ the knaps, An’ meaede up such a vier! An’ thou an’ Tom wer all we miss’…

When snow-white clouds wer thin an… Avore the zummer sky o’ blue, An’ I’d noo ho but how to vind Zome play to entertain my mind; Along the water, as did wind

By the brow o’ thik hangen I spen… In the house that did peep out bet… The dree woaks, that in winter avw… An’ in zummer their sheaede to the… An’ there, as in zummer we play’d…

When sheaedes do vall into ev’ry h… An’ reach vrom trees half athirt t… An’ banks an’ walls be a-looken yo… That be a-turn’d to the zun gwain… Drough hay in cock, O,

When in happy times we met, Then by look an’ deed I show’d, How my love wer all a-zet In the smiles that she bestow’d. She mid have, o’ left an’ right,

Ah! ev’ry day mid bring a while O’ eaese vrom all woone’s ceaere a… The welcome evenen, when ’tis swee… Vor tired friends wi’ weary veet, But litsome hearts o’ love, to mee…

In happy days when I wer young, An’ had noo ho, an’ laugh’d an’ zu… The maid wer merry by her cow, An’ men wer merry wi’ the plough; But never talk’d, at hwome or out

O, I be a carter, wi’ my whip A-smacken loud, as by my zide, Up over hill, an’ down the dip, The heavy lwoad do slowly ride. An’ I do haul in all the crops,

And passing here through evening d… He hastened happy to her door, But found the old folk only two With no more footsteps on the floo… To walk again below the skies

Where cows did slowly seek the bri… O’ _Stour_, drough zunburnt grass… Wi’ vishen float, that there did z… An’ rise, I zot as in a dream. The dazzlen zun did cast his light