Where the childern do play in the cool,

To the steppèn stwones over the brook,—

Aye, the grey blocks o' rock at the pool."

"Then you don't seem a-born an' a-bred,"

I spoke up, "at a place here about;"

An' she answer'd wi' cheäks up so red

As a pi'ny but leäte a-come out,

"No, I liv'd wi' my uncle that died

Back in Eäpril, an' now I'm a-come

Here to Ham, to my mother, to bide,—