The Broken Heart

"Where the bridge out at Woodley did stride, Wi' his wide arches' cool sheded bow, Up above the clear brook that did slide By the poppies, befoam'd"

"Last Easter Jim put on his blue Frock cwoat, the vust time-vier new; Wi yollow buttons all o brass, That glitterd in the zun lik glass; An p"

"Ov all the birds upon the wing Between the zunny showers o' spring, Vor all the lark, a-swingen high, Mid zing below a cloudless sky, An' sparrows"

"The girt woak tree that's in the dell ! There's noo tree I do love so well; Vor times an' times when I wer young I there've a-climb'd, an' there've a-"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"