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The Wife a-Lost

by William Barnes

Since I noo mwore do zee your feace,

Up steairs or down below,

I’ll zit me in the lwonesome pleace,

Where flat-bough’d beech do grow;

Below the beeches’ bough, my love,

Where you did never come,

An’ I don’t look to meet ye now,

As I do look at hwome.

Since you noo mwore be at my zide,

In walks in zummer het,

I’ll goo alwone where mist do ride,

Drough trees a-drippen wet;

Below the rain-wet bough, my love,

Where you did never come,

An’ I don’t grieve to miss ye now,

As I do grieve at hwome.

Since now bezide my dinner-bwoard

Your vaice do never sound,

I’ll eat the bit I can avword,

A-vield upon the ground;

Below the darksome bough, my love,

Where you did never dine,

An’ I don’t grieve to miss ye now,

As I at hwome do pine.

Since I do miss your vaice an’ feace

In prayer at eventide,

I’ll pray wi’ woone sad vaice vor greace

To goo where you do bide;

Above the tree an’ bough, my love,

Where you be gone avore,

An’ be a-waiten vor me now,

To come vor evermwore.

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