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My Orcha'd In Linden Lea

By William Barnes

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Ithin the woodlands, flowry gleaded, By the woak trees mossy moot, The sheenen grass-bleades, timber-sheaded, Now do quiver under voot; An birds do whissle over head, An waters bubblen in its bed, An there vor me the apple tree Do lean down low in Linden Lea. When leaves that leately wer a-springen Now do feade ithin the copse, An painted birds do hush their zingen Up upon the timbers tops; An brown-leavd fruits a-turnen red, In cloudless zunsheen, over head, Wi fruit vor me, the apple tree Do lean down low in Linden Lea. Let other vok meake money vaster In the air o dark-roomd towns, I dont dread a peevish measter; Though noo man do heed my frowns, I be free to goo abrode, Or teake agean my hwomeward road To where, vor me, the apple tree Do lean down low in Linden Lea.

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About William Barnes

William Barnes (1801–1886) was an English poet who wrote in Dorset dialect. His nature poems and pastoral verses celebrate rural English life with linguistic precision and deep feeling.

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