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William Barnes
1801 - 1886
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The Young That Died In Beauty
If souls should only sheen so bright / In heaven as in e’thly light, / An’ nothen better wer the cease,
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Green mwold on zummer bars do show / That they've a-dripped in winter wet; / The hoof-worn ring o' groun' below
Vields By Watervalls
When our downcast looks be smileless, / Under others' wrongs an' slightens, / When our daily deeds be guileless,
Vull A Man
No, I’m a man, I’m vull a man, / You beat my manhood, if you can. / You’ll be a man if you can teake
Woak Hill
When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden / Green-ruddy in hedges, / Bezide the red doust o' the ridges,
Woone Smile Mwore
O! MARY, when the zun went down, / Woone night in spring, w’ viry rim, / Behind the nap wi’ woody crown,
Zummer An' Winter
When I led by zummer streams / The pride o' Lea, as naighbours thought her, / While the zun, wi' evenen beams,
The Clote (Water-Lily)
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The Fall
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The Wind at the Door
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