Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes

But woone, the smartest for the roäd,

That pull'd away the dearest lwoad—

Young Meäry Meäd o' merry mood,

That wer a-woo'd an' wedded.

THE STWONEN BWOY UPON THE PILLAR.

Wi' smokeless tuns an' empty halls,

An' moss a-clingèn to the walls,

In ev'ry wind the lofty tow'rs

Do teäke the zun, an' bear the show'rs;