Girt banks do shut up ev'ry drong,

An' stratch wi' thorny backs along

Where we did use to run among

The vuzzen an' the broom.

Ees; while the ragged colts did crop

The nibbled grass, I used to hop

The emmet-buts, vrom top to top,

So proud o' my spry jumps:

Wi' thee behind or at my zide,

A-skippèn on so light an' wide