By window-strikèn zun,

Avore the busy wife's vu'st smoke

Do curl above the tun,

My day's begun. An' when the zun

'S a-zinkèn in the west,

The work the mornèn brought's a-done,

An' I do goo to rest,

Till the cock do gi'e me warnèn;

An' light or dark,

So brisk's a lark,