William Barnes

Sundry Pieces: The Pleäce a Teäle’s a-twold o’

Why tidden vields an’ runnen brooks,
     Nor trees in Spring or fall;
An’ tidden woody slopes an’ nooks,
     Do touch us mwost ov all;
An’ tidden ivy that do cling
     By housen big an’ wold, O,
But this is, after all, the thing,—
     The pleaece a teaele’s a-twold o’.
 
At Burn, where mother’s young friends know’d
     The vu’st her maiden neaeme,
The zunny knaps, the narrow road
     An’ green, be still the seaeme;
The squier’s house, an’ ev’ry ground
     That now his son ha’ zwold, O,
An’ ev’ry wood he hunted round
     'S a pleaece a teaele’s a-twold o’.
 
The maid a-lov’d to our heart’s core,
     The dearest of our kin,
Do meaeke us like the very door
     Where they went out an’ in.
’Tis zome’hat touchen that bevel
     Poor flesh an’ blood o’ wold, O,
Do meaeke us like to zee so well
     The pleaece a teaele’s a-twold o’.
 
When blushen Jenny vu’st did come
     To zee our Poll o’ nights,
An’ had to goo back leaetish hwome,
     Where vo’k did zee the zights,
A-chatten loud below the sky
     So dark, an’ winds so cwold, O,
How proud wer I to zee her by
     The pleaece the teaele’s a-twold o’.
 
Zoo whether ’tis the humpy ground
     That wer a battle viel’,
Or mossy house, all ivy-bound,
     An’ vallen down piece-meal;
Or if ’tis but a scraggy tree,
     Where beauty smil’d o’ wold, O,
How dearly I do like to zee
     The pleaece a teaele’s a-twold o’.
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