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The wife a-lost

from Second-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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SINCE I noo mwore do zee your feäce,

Up steäirs or down below,

I'll zit me in the lwonesome pleäce,

Where flat-bough'd beech do grow:

Below the beeches’ bough, my love,

Where you did never come,

An’ I don't look to meet ye now,

As I do look at hwome.

Since you noo mwore be at my zide,

In walks in zummer het, heat

I'll goo alwone where mist do ride,

Drough trees a-drippèn wet: through

Below the raïn-wet bough, my love,

Where you did never come,

An’ I don't grieve to miss ye now,

As I do grieve at home.

Since now bezide my dinner-bwoard -table

Your vaïce do never sound,

I'll eat the bit I can avword,

A-vield upon the ground;

Below the darksome bough, my love,

Where you did never dine,

An’ I don't grieve to miss ye now,

As I at hwome do pine.

Since I do miss your vaïce an’ feäce

In praÿer at eventide,

I'll praÿ wi’ woone sad vaïce vor greäce one

To goo where you do bide;

Above the tree an’ bough, my love,

Where you be gone avore,

An’ be a-waïtèn vor me now,

To come vor evermwore.

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

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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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