The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire / Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications; with Notes and a Glossary

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As fra the banks o' Swale.

Said ah full low, "Can this be she,

This thing of woe and wail,

That ah yance kiss'd delightfully

Upon the banks o' Swale?"

O, heavens it was the very one

Ah met e' that sweet vale,

But ah the evary charm was gone,

Ah saw ont' banks o' Swale.