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Vull a man

from Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2018

T. L. Burton
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide
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NO, I'm a man, I'm vull a man,

You beät my manhood, if you can.

You'll be a man if you can teäke

All steätes that household life do meäke.

The love-toss'd child, a-croodlèn loud, cooing

The bwoy a-screamèn wild in plaÿ,

The tall grown youth a-steppèn proud,

The father staïd, the house's staÿ. mature

No; I can boast if others can,

I'm vull a man.

A young-cheäk'd mother's tears mid vall, may

When woone a-lost, not half man-tall, one

Vrom little hand, a-called vrom plaÿ,

Do leäve noo tool, but drop a taÿ, toy

An’ die avore he's father-free

To sheäpe his life by his own plan;

An’ vull an angel he shall be,

But here on e'th not vull a man, earth

No; I could boast if others can,

I'm vull a man.

I woonce, a child, wer father-fed, once

An’ I've a-vound my childern bread;

My eärm, a sister's trusty crook, arm

Is now a faïthvul wife's own hook;

An’ I've a-gone where vo'k did zend, folk

An’ gone upon my own free mind,

An’ of'en at my own wits’ end,

A-led o’ God while I wer blind.

No; I could boast if others can

I'm vull a man.

An’ still, ov all my tweil ha’ won, toil

My lovèn maïd an’ merry son, daughter

Though each in turn's a jaÿ an’ ceäre, joy

‘Ve a-had, an’ still shall have, their sheäre; share

An’ then, if God should bless their lives,

Why I mid zend vrom son to son may

My life, right on drough men an’ wives, through

As long, good now, as time do run.

No; I could boast if others can,

I'm vull a man.

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Publisher: The University of Adelaide Press
Print publication year: 2017

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  • Vull a man
  • T. L. Burton, University of Adelaide
  • Book: The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems
  • Online publication: 29 March 2018
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  • T. L. Burton, University of Adelaide
  • Book: The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems
  • Online publication: 29 March 2018
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