Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes

To leäve the night a-broodèn dark

At Stalbridge, wi' its grey-wall'd park;

Small jaÿ to me the vields do bring,

Vor all their zummer birds do zing,

Since now thy beams noo mwore do fleäme

In drough the window's stwonèn freäme.

THE WATER-SPRING IN THE LEANE.

Oh! aye! the spring 'ithin the leäne,

A-leäden down to Lyddan Brook;