Vor all it had noo raïn to shed;

An' as the darkness gather'd thick,

I zot me down below a rick,

Where straws upon the win' did ride

Wi' giddy flights, along my zide,

Though unmolestèn me a-restèn,

Where I laÿ 'ithin the lew.

My wife's bright vier indoors did cast

Its fleäme upon the window peänes

That screen'd her teäble, while the blast