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The Winter’s Willow
Ralph Vaughan Williams

There Liddy zot bezide her cow,
Upon her lowly seat, O;
A hood did overhang her brow,
Her païl wer at her veet, O;
An' she wer kind, an' she wer feäir,
An' she wer young, an' free o' ceäre;
Vew winters had a-blow'd her heäir,
Bezide the Winter's Willow.

Above the coach-wheels rollèn rims
She never rose to ride, O,
Though she do zet her comely lim's
Above the mare's white zide, O;
But don't become too proud to stoop
An' scrub her milkèn pail's white hoop,
Or zit a-milkèn where do droop,

The wet-stemm'd Winter's Willow.
An' if there's readship in her smile,
She don't begrudge to speäre, O,
To zomebody a little while,
The empty woaken chair, O;
An' if I've luck upon my zide,
Why, I do think she'll be my bride
Avore the leaves ha' twice a-died
Upon the Winter's Willow.