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Northern Farmer: New StyleTennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
Alfred Tennyson
(Probably the most popular of English lyrical poets; 18091892. Made Poet-laureate in 1850, and a baron in 1884)D
Proputty, proputty, proputty—that’s what I ’ears ’em saäy.
Proputty, proputty, proputty—Sam, thou’s an ass for thy paäins,
Theer’s moor sense i’ one o’ ’is legs nor in all thy braäins.
Thou’s beän talkin’ to muther, an’ she beän a tellin’ it me.
Thou’ll not marry for munny—thou’s sweet upo’ parson’s lass—
Noä—thou’ll marry for luvv—an’ we boäth on us thinks tha an ass.
She’s a beauty thou thinks—an’ soä is scoors o’ gells,
Them as ’as munny an’ all—wot’s a beauty?—the flower as blaws.
But proputty, proputty sticks, an’ proputty, proputty graws.
Warn’t I craäzed fur the lasses mysén when I wur a lad?
But I knaw’d a Quaäker feller as often ’as towd ma this: “Doän’t thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!”