Alfred Lord Tennyson - Northern Farmer: New StyleAlfred Lord Tennyson - Northern Farmer: New Style
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Dosn`t thou `ear my `erse`s legs, as they canters awaäy?
Proputty, proputty, proputty—that`s what I `ears `em saäy.
Proputty, proputty, proputty—Sam, thou`s an ass for thy paaïns:
Theer`s moor sense i` one o` `is legs, nor in all thy braaïns.
Woä—theer`s a craw to pluck wi` tha, Sam; yon `s parson`s `ouse—
Dosn`t thou knaw that a man mun be eäther a man or a mouse?
Time to think on it then; for thou`ll be twenty to weeäk.
Proputty, proputty—woä then, woä—let ma `ear mysén speäk.
Me an` thy muther, Sammy, `as been a`talkin` o` thee;
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 of us thinks tha an ass.
Seeä`d her todaäy goä by—Saäint`s-daäy—they was ringing the bells.
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.
Do`ant be stunt; taäke time. I knaws what maäkes tha sa mad.
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:
"Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!"
An` I went wheer munny war; an` thy muther coom to `and,
Wi` lots o` munny laaïd by, an` a nicetish bit o` land.
Maäybe she warn`t a beauty—I niver giv it a thowt—
But warn`t she as good to cuddle an` kiss as a lass as `ant nowt?
Parson`s lass `ant nowt, an` she weänt `a nowt when `e `s deäd,
Mun be a guvness, lad, or summut, and addle her breäd.
Why? for `e `s nobbut a curate, an` weänt niver get hissén clear,
An` `e maäde the bed as `e ligs on afoor `e coom`d to the shere.
An` thin `e coom`d to the parish wi` lots o` Varsity debt,
Stook to his taäil thy did, an` `e `ant got shut on `em yet.
An` `e ligs on `is back i` the grip, wi` noän to lend `im a shuvv,
Woorse nor a far-welter`d yowe: fur, Sammy, `e married for luvv.
Luvv? what`s luvv? thou can luvv thy lass an` `er munny too,
Maäkin` `em goä togither, as they`ve good right to do.
Couldn I luvv thy muther by cause `o `er munny laaïd by?
Naäy—fur I luvv`d `er a vast sight moor fur it: reäson why.
Ay, an` thy muther says thou wants to marry the lass,
Cooms of a gentleman burn: an` we boäth on us thinks tha an ass.
Woä then, proputty, wiltha?—an ass as near as mays nowt—
Woä then, wiltha? dangtha!—the bees is as fell as owt.
Breäk me a bit o` the esh for his `eäd, lad, out o` the fence!
Gentleman burn! what`s gentleman burn? is it shillins an` pence?
Proputty, proputty`s ivrything `ere, an`, Sammy, I`m blest
If it isn`t the saäme oop yonder, fur them as `as it `s the best.
Tis`n them as `as munny as breaks into `ouses an` steäls,
Them as `as coats to their backs an` taäkes their regular meäls,
Noä, but it `s them as niver knaws wheer a meäl`s to be `ad.
Taäke my word for it Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad.
Them or thir feythers, tha sees, mun `a beän a laäzy lot,
Fur work mun `a gone to the gittin` whiniver munny was got.
Feyther `ad ammost nowt; leastways `is munny was `id.
But `e tued an` moil`d issén dead, an` `e died a good un, `e did.
Looök thou theer wheer Wrigglesby beck cooms out by the `ill!
Feyther run oop to the farm, an` I runs oop to the mill;
An` I `ll run oop to the brig, an` that thou `ll live to see;
And if thou marries a good un I `ll leäve the land to thee.
Thim`s my noätions, Sammy, wheerby I means to stick;
But if thou marries a bad un, I `ll leäve the land to Dick.—
Coom oop, proputty, proputty—that`s what I `ears `im saäy—
Proputty, proputty, proputty—canter an` canter awaäy.
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