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WHEN BIRDS BE STILL.

Vor all the zun do leäve the sky,

An' all the sounds o' day do die,

An' noo mwore veet do walk the dim

Vield-path to clim' the stiel's bars,

Yeet out below the rizèn stars,

The dark'nèn day mid leäve behind

Woone tongue that I shall always vind,