from Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2018
WELL, you mid keep the town an’ street, may
Wi’ grassless stwones to beät your veet,
An’ zunless windows where your brows
Be never cooled by swaÿèn boughs;
An’ let me end, as I begun,
My days in oben aïr an’ zun,
Where zummer win's a-blowèn sweet,
Wi’ blooth o’ trees as white's a sheet; blossom
Or swaÿèn boughs, a-bendèn low
Wi’ rip'nèn apples in a row,
An’ we a-risèn rathe do meet early
The bright'nèn dawn wi’ dewy veet,
An’ leäve, at night, the vootless groves,
To rest 'ithin our thatchen oves. eaves
An’ here our childern still do bruise
The deäisy buds wi’ tiny shoes,
As we did meet avore em, free
Vrom ceäre, in plaÿ below the tree.
An’ there in me'th their lively eyes mirth
Do glissen to the zunny skies,
As aïr do blow, wi’ leäzy peäce
To cool, in sheäde, their burnèn feäce.
Where leaves o’ spreadèn docks do hide
The zawpit's timber-lwoaded zide,
An’ trees do lie, wi’ scraggy limbs,
Among the deäisy's crimson rims.
An’ they, so proud, wi’ eärms a-spread arms
To keep their balance good, do tread
Wi’ ceäreful steps o’ tiny zoles
The narrow zides o’ trees an’ poles.
An’ zoo I'll leäve vor your light veet so
The peävement o’ the zunless street,
While I do end, as I begun,
My days in oben aïr an’ zun.
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