To days an' tides in Culver Dell.

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OUR BE'THPLACE.

How dear's the door a latch do shut,

An' geärden that a hatch do shut,

Where vu'st our bloomèn cheäks ha' prest

The pillor ov our childhood's rest;

Or where, wi' little tooes, we wore

The paths our fathers trod avore;