Frederic William Moorman Church Poems

• 1. The Gardener And The Robin
  Why! Bobbie, so thou's coom agean!
  I'm fain to see thee here;
  It's lang sin I've set een on thee,
  It's ommost hauf a yeer.
  ...
• 2. The Two Lamplighters
  I niver thowt when I grew owd
  I'd tak to leetin' lamps;
  I sud have said, I'd rayther pad
  My hoof on t' road wi' tramps.
  ...
• 3. The Flowers Of Knaresborough Forest
  But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning
  The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
  Jane Elliot (1727-1805).
  
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• 4. The Local Preacher
  Ay, I'm a ranter, so at least fowks say;
  Happen they'd tell t' same tale o' t' postle Paul.
  I've ranted fifty yeer, coom first o' May,
  An' niver changed my gospil through 'em all.
  ...
• 5. Lile Doad
  The Lord's bin hard on me, Sir,
  He's stown my barn away.
  O dowly, dowly was that neet
  He stole lile Doad away!
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• 6. The Bells Of Kirkby Overblow
  Draw back my curtains, Mary,
  An' oppen t' windey wide;
  Ay, ay, I know I'm deein',
  While to-morn I'll hardlins bide.
  ...

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