 | Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect |  |
WENT HWOME.
Upon the slope, the hedge did bound
The vield wi' blossom-whited zide,
An' charlock patches, yollow-dyed,
Did reach along the white-soil'd ground;
An' vo'k, a-comèn up vrom meäd,
Brought gil'cup meal upon the shoe;
Or went on where the road did leäd,
Wi' smeechy dowst, vrom heel to tooe.
As noon did smite, wi' burnèn light,
The road so white, to Meldonley.
The vield wi' blossom-whited zide,
An' charlock patches, yollow-dyed,
Did reach along the white-soil'd ground;
An' vo'k, a-comèn up vrom meäd,
Brought gil'cup meal upon the shoe;
Or went on where the road did leäd,
Wi' smeechy dowst, vrom heel to tooe.
As noon did smite, wi' burnèn light,
The road so white, to Meldonley.
An' I did tramp the zun-dried ground,
By hedge-climb'd hills, a-spread wi' flow'rs,
An' watershootèn dells, an' tow'rs,
By elem-trees a-hemm'd all round,
To zee a vew wold friends, about
Wold Meldon, where I still ha' zome,
That bad me speed as I come out,
An' now ha' bid me welcome hwome,
As I did goo, while skies wer blue,
Vrom view to view, to Meldonley.
By hedge-climb'd hills, a-spread wi' flow'rs,
An' watershootèn dells, an' tow'rs,
By elem-trees a-hemm'd all round,
To zee a vew wold friends, about
Wold Meldon, where I still ha' zome,
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An' now ha' bid me welcome hwome,
As I did goo, while skies wer blue,
Vrom view to view, to Meldonley.
An' there wer timber'd knaps, that show'd
Cool sheädes, vor rest, on grassy ground,
An' thatch-brow'd windows, flower-bound,
Where I could wish wer my abode.
I pass'd the maïd avore the spring,
An' shepherd by the thornèn tree;
An' heärd the merry driver zing,
But met noo kith or kin to me,
Till I come down, vrom Meldon's crown
To rwofs o' brown, at Meldonley.
Cool sheädes, vor rest, on grassy ground,
An' thatch-brow'd windows, flower-bound,
Where I could wish wer my abode.
I pass'd the maïd avore the spring,
An' shepherd by the thornèn tree;
An' heärd the merry driver zing,
But met noo kith or kin to me,
Till I come down, vrom Meldon's crown
To rwofs o' brown, at Meldonley.
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