Brought gil'cup meal upon the shoe;

Or went on where the road did leäd,

Wi' smeechy doust from heel to tooe.

As noon did smite, wi' burnèn light,

The road so white, to Meldonley.

An' I did tramp the zun-dried ground,

By hedge-climb'd hills, a-spread wi' flow'rs,

An' watershootèn dells, an' tow'rs,

By elem-trees a-hemm'd all round,

To zee a vew wold friends, about