Summer: Be’mi’ster
Sweet Be’mi’ster, that bist a-bound
By green an’ woody hills all round,
Wi’ hedges, reachen up between
A thousan’ vields o’ zummer green,
Where elems’ lofty heads do drow
Their sheaedes vor hay-meakers below,
An’ wild hedge-flow’rs do charm the souls
O’ maidens in their evenen strolls.
When I o’ Zunday nights wi’ Jeaene
Do saunter drough a vield or leaene,
Where elder-blossoms be a-spread
Above the eltrot’s milk-white head,
An’ flow’rs o’ blackberries do blow
Upon the brembles, white as snow,
To be outdone avore my zight
By Jeaen’s gay frock o’ dazzlen white;
Oh! then there’s nothen that’s 'ithout
Thy hills that I do ho about,—
Noo bigger pleaece, noo gayer town,
Beyond thy sweet bells’ dyen soun’,
As they do ring, or strike the hour,
At evenen vrom thy wold red tow’r.
No: shelter still my head, an’ keep
My bwones when I do vall asleep.
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