IT’S hard to see all bonnie things
Alone ‘at once we shared;
Yon buddin’ thorn, yon flutterings
Of blue-tits newly paired;
Yon lapwing callin’ owerhead
An’ throstles in young firs
Aboon my father’s Dallow stead;
Spring’s luveliest messengers!
T’ sun’s up at six ower Dallow Park
Noo lambin’-time is here,
An’ larks sing after t’ edge of dark,
It’s liltin’ time of t’ year.
Aa! neets are flaysome beautiful
When winds are makin’ moan,
But stars are dowly in Dallow Pool
If a lass goes ther alone.
Ther’s things we cannot thole to see
When t’ sharer’s far away,
How can I bide a buddin’ tree
Or watch blue-tits at play!
Shall I iver forgit as thoo downdale fared
Birds sang o’ hopeful morrows. . . .
How can they fail, sweet things we shared,
To be our girtest sorrows!
(Dorothy Una Ratcliffe)
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