An' here a geäte, a-slammèn to,

Did let the slow-wheel'd plough roll drough.

Ov all that then went by, but vew

Be now a-left behine', to beät

The mornèn flow'rs or evenèn dew,

Or slam the woakèn vive-bar'd geäte;

But woone, my wife, so litty-stepp'd,

That have a-kept my path o' life,

Wi' her vew errands on the road,

Where woonce she bore her mother's lwoad.