Frederic William Moorman Face Poems

• 1. Lord George
  These verses were written soon after the Old Age Pensions Bill came into operation.
  
  
  I'd walk frae here to Skipton,
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• 2. Mary Mecca
  Mary Mecca,(1) Mary Mecca,
  I'm fain to see thee here,
  A Devon lass to fill my glass
  O' home-brewed Yorkshire beer.
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• 3. The Hungry Forties
  Thou wants my vote, young man wi' t' carpet-bags,
  Weel, sit thee down, an' hark what I've to say.
  It's noan so varry oft wer kitchen flags
  Are mucked by real live lords down Yelland(1) way.
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• 4. 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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• 5. One Year Older
  One yeer owder, one yeer dearer:
  That's what I sal awlus say.
  Draw thy chair a little nearer,
  Put yon stockin's reight away.
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• 6. Fieldfares
  Fieldfares, bonny fieldfares, feedin' 'mang the bent,
  Wheer the sun is shinin' through yon cloud's wide rent,
  Welcoom back to t' moorlands,
  Frae Norway's fells an' shorelands,
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• 7. The Flower Of Wensleydale
  She leaned o'er her latticed casement,
  The Flower of Wensleydale;
  'Twas St Agnes Eve at midnight,
  Through the mist the stars burnt pale.
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