Frederic William Moorman

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Frederic William Moorman Floor Poems

  • 1.
    I've lived all my life i' Keighley,
    I'm a Yorkshire artisan;
    An' when I were just turned seventy
    I became an Englishman.
    ...
  • 2.
    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.
    ...
  • 3.
    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!
    ...
  • 4.
    Cambodunum is the name of a Roman station, situated on a farm at Slack, on the hills above Huddersfield.


    Cambodunum, Cambodunum,
    ...
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