Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes

Her eyes to Blackmwore's blue-hill'd pläin,

While Duncliffe is the traveller's mark,

Or cloty Stour's a-rollèn dark;

Or while our bells do call, vor greäce,

The vo'k avore their Seävior's feäce,

Mid Paladore, an' Poll a dear,

Vor ever know

O' peäce an' plenty down below.

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