Frederic William Moorman Year 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. The New Englishman
  I've lived all my life i' Keighley,
  I'm a Yorkshire artisan;
  An' when I were just turned seventy
  I became an Englishman.
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• 3. 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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• 4. 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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• 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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