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THE NEW HOUSE A-GETTÈN WOLD.
Ah! when our wedded life begun,
Theäse clean-wall'd house of ours wer new;
Wi' thatch as yollor as the zun
Avore the cloudless sky o' blue;
The sky o' blue that then did bound
The blue-hilled worold's flow'ry ground.
An' we've a-vound it weather-brown'd,
As Spring-tide blossoms oben'd white,