Frederic William Moorman Young Poems

• 1. A Dalesman's Litany
  From Hull, Halifax, and Hell, good Lord deliver us.
  A Yorkshire Proverb.
  
  
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• 2. 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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• 3. 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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• 4. Our Beck
  I niver heerd its name; we call it just "Our beck."
  Mebbe, there's bigger streams down Ripon way;
  But if thou wants clean watter, by my neck!
  Thou'll travel far for cleaner, ony day.
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