I ALLUS hated goin’ to t’ kirk,
An’ preachin’ doant do owt
To help a man ‘at’s gone astray;
To sermons, I think nowt!
theer is ony Power aboon,
Whya tell it how to work
Like Bishop, Priest an’ Deacon do,
An’ Lay Reader an’ Clerk?
But surely I believe in t’ Lord?
Happen I doant an’do….
Theer is a Force somewheer, I hod,
‘At acts baith square an’ true;
For when I’se been a-seekin’ sheep,
When snow lies deep in ghylls,
An’ sunleet spreads sich pinks an’ blues
Ower far-off Hamble Hills;
I’se felt ‘at theer wur summat-Ay-
Grander by far nor man;
An’, too, at neet, when I watch t’ stars
Revolvin’ to a plan.
But if it’s God ahint it all,
Yan thing’s as plain’s can be,
He wean’t be at t’ Parson’s call,
I wudn’t, if I wur He!
(Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)
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