It corn’t be helped, it corn’t be stopped,
When aw is done an’ said;
Whatever comes, whatever goes,
Young folk keep getting’ wed.
Owd fowks may kindly caution ’em
An’ marriage woes proclaim;
But t’young ‘uns taks no heed of ’em,
They just get wed aw t’same.
Life is a gie-an’-tak’ affair-
A tug twixt peace an’ strife;
A mon mun gie hissel away
Whene’r he tak’s a wife.
Young chaps feel lonely by theirsels,
So does young women too;
Therefore they go an’ tee theirsels
In knots they corn’t undo.
The bride’s gan away by somebody else-
Well, so I have been towd;
But t’chap mun give hissel, unless
He happens to be sowd.
But still I wish aw happiness
On’ mony a sunny way
To th’ gradely lad an bonny lass
That’s reached their weddin’-day.
May they their temper never lose,
Like plenty does that weds;
An’ though they gone an’ lost their hearts
May they ne’er lose their yeads.
Let each ha’ t’others confidence,
An may they never clem;
May they allus trust each other-e’en
If t’ grocer weren’t trust them.
May aw their life be good an sweet,
One endless towfymoon;
No fawin’-eaut-especially if
They’re up in a balloon.
Here’s joy to ’em, here’s luck to ’em
At board an’ at bed;
May they never know that they are born,
Still less that they are wed!
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May they keep till th’ end that Eden time
That’s coom to ’em today,
An’ may aw their troubles be “little uns,”
As th’ jolly owd jokes say.
And so I end this jolly rhyme,
In a wish we aw may share, –
Th’ best of health, an’ enoof o’ wealth,
To th’ newly-married pair.
(Charles Allen Clarke)
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