Lovely and red

To see the sun rise thro the skirts of the wood
In his mantle so lovley and red
It cheers up my spirits and does me much good
As thro the cold stubbles I tred.
Tho not that his beams more advances the scene
Or adds to the Landscape a charm
But all that delights me by him may be seen
That the ensuing hours will be warm.

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The winter time is over love

The winter time is over love
White thorns begin to bud
& brown & green of freshness love
Enlivens all the wood
Theres white clouds got agen the sun
One daisey open on the green
The primrose shows its sulphur bud
Just where the hazel stulps are seen

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Early rising

Aside the green hills steepy brow

Where shades the oak its darksome bough

The maiden sat to milk her cow

The cause of early rising

The wild rose mingling with the shade

Stung with envy clos'd to fade

To see the rose her cheeks display'd

The fruits of early rising

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In telling way

& O how quiet sundays past away

When by that little gravel brook we lay

Where milking maidens on its shelving brink

Feared soiling clothes by kneeling down to drink

I sipt from out their hands in telling way

& seemed to make it more sense to stay

O how I long to see that pleasant place

& meet the welcome of each pleasant face

(fragment, from ‘The Wish’)

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The pasture pathway

Where youth has rovd & still where memory roves

The pasture pathway neath its willow groves

Ah as my eye looks oer these lovly scenes

All the delights of former life beholding

Spite of the pain the care that intervenes

When lovd remembrance is her bliss unfolding

Picking her childish posies on your greens

My soul can peer oer its distress awhile

& sorrows cheek find leisure for a smile

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I love thee

I love thee, Nature, with a boundless love!
The calm of earth, the storm of roaring woods!
The winds breathe happiness where'er I rove!
There's life's own music in the swelling floods!
My heart is in the thunder-melting clouds,
The snow-cap't mountain, and the rolling sea!
And hear ye not the voice where darkness shrouds
The heavens? There lives happiness for me!

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Claumpt over the moor

Ere the church bell i the morn had tung four

Fudging old Jemmy claumpt over the moor
He cockt up his beaver & nockt at the door
& up wi ye Jenney bawls he
Deuce take him god knows I een wisht him neck braken
But mizerdly dad & old mam was awaken
Who telld me take chance when it is to be taken
So jemmys fair drudge I mun be

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