I GOT TWO VIELDS.

I got two vields, an' I don't ceäre

What squire mid have a bigger sheäre.

My little zummer-leäze do stratch

All down the hangèn, to a patch

O' meäd between a hedge an' rank

Ov elems, an' a river bank.

Where yollow clotes, in spreadèn beds

O' floatèn leaves, do lift their heads

By bendèn bulrushes an' zedge

A-swaÿèn at the water's edge,

Below the withy that do spread

Athirt the brook his grey-leav'd head.

An' eltrot flowers, milky white,

Do catch the slantèn evenèn light;

An' in the meäple boughs, along

The hedge, do ring the blackbird's zong;

Or in the day, a-vleèn drough

The leafy trees, the whoa'se gookoo

Do zing to mowers that do zet

Their zives on end, an' stan' to whet.

From my wold house among the trees

A leäne do goo along the leäze

O' yollow gravel, down between

Two mossy banks vor ever green.

An' trees, a-hangèn overhead,

Do hide a trinklèn gully-bed,

A-cover'd by a bridge vor hoss

Or man a-voot to come across.

Zoo wi' my hwomestead, I don't ceäre

What squire mid have a bigger sheäre!

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