Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Edwin Waugh 181890Th Sweetheart Gate
O
But nobbut one for me;
It winds by a rindlin’ wayter side,
An’ o’er a posied lea,
It wanders into a shady dell;
An’ when aw ’ve done for th’ day,
Aw never can sattle this heart o’ mine,
Beawt walkin’ deawn that way.
Nor wayter rindlin’ clear;
But deawn i’ th vale there ’s a rosy nook,
An’ my true love lives theer.
It ’s olez summer where th’ heart’s content,
Tho’ wintry winds may blow;
An’ there ’s never gate ’at ’s so kind to th’ fuut,
As th’ gate one likes to go.
A theawsan’ things to say;
But th’ very first glent o’ yon chimbley-top
It drives ’em o’ away;
An’ when aw meet wi’ my bonny lass,
It sets my heart a-jee;—
Oh, there ’s summut i’ th’ leet o’ yon two blue e’en
That plays the dule wi’ me!
An’ laid his music by,
He flutters deawn to his mate, an’ stops
Till dayleet stirs i’ th’ sky.
Though Matty sends me away at dark,
Aw know that hoo ’s reet full well;—
An’ it ’s heaw aw love a true-hearted lass,
No mortal tung can tell!
When wakin’ time comes on;
An’ aw wish that Kesmass time were here,
An’ Matty an’ me were one.
Aw wish this wanderin’ wark were o’er—
This maunderin’ to an’ fro;
That aw could go whoam to my own true love,
An’ stop at neet an’ o’.