Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Linden Lea | | My Orchet in Linden Lea | | William Barnes (1801–1886) |
| | Dorset Dialect
’ITHIN the woodlands, flow’ry gledaed, | |
| By the woak tree’s mossy moot, | |
| The sheenen grass-bleades, timber-sheaded, | |
| Now do quiver under voot; | |
| An’ birds do whissle auver head, | 5 |
| An’ water ’s bubblen in its bed, | |
| An’ there vor me the apple tree | |
| Do lean down low in Linden Lea. | |
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| When leaves that leately wer a-springen | |
| Now do feade ’ithin the copse, | 10 |
| An’ painted birds do hush ther zingen | |
| Up upon the timber’s tops, | |
| An’ brown-leav’d fruit ’s a-turnen red, | |
| In cloudless zunsheen, auver head, | |
| Wi’ fruit vor me the apple tree | 15 |
| Do lean down low in Linden Lea. | |
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| Let other vo’k meake money vaster | |
| In the air o’ dark-room’d towns, | |
| I don’t dread a peevish measter; | |
| Though noo man do heed my frowns, | 20 |
| 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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