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THE WOODY HOLLOW.
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An’ while the green do zwarm wi’ wold
An’ young, so thick as sheep in vwold,
The bellows in the blacksmith’s shop,
An’ miller’s moss-green wheel do stop,
An’ lwonesome in the wheelwright’s shed
’S a-left the wheelless waggon-bed;
While zwarms o’ comèn friends do tread
 The white road down athirt the hill.

An’ when the windèn road so white,
A-climmèn up the hills in zight,
Do leäd to pleäzen, east or west,
The vu’st a-known, an’ lov’d the best,
How touchèn in the zunsheen’s glow,
Or in the sheädes that clouds do drow
Upon the zunburnt downs below,
 ’S the white road up athirt the hill.

What peaceful hollows here the long
White roads do windy round among!
Wi’ deäiry cows in woody nooks,
An’ haymeäkers among their pooks,
An’ housen that the trees do screen
From zun an’ zight by boughs o’ green!
Young blushèn beauty’s hwomes between
 The white roads up athirt the hills.

THE WOODY HOLLOW.

If mem’ry, when our hope’s a-gone,
Could bring us dreams to cheat us on,
Ov happiness our hearts voun’ true
In years we come too quickly drough;
What days should come to me, but you,
 That burn’d my youthvul cheäks wi’ zuns
 O’ zummer, in my plaÿsome runs
  About the woody hollow.