I Got Two Vields

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I got two vields, an' I don't ceäre
  What squire mid have a bigger sheäre.
  My little zummer-leäze do stratch
  All down the hangèn, to a patch
  O' meäd between a hedge an' rank
  Ov elems, an' a river bank.
  Where yollow clotes, in spreadèn beds
  O' floatèn leaves, do lift their heads
  By bendèn bulrushes an' zedge
  A-swaÿèn at the water's edge,
  Below the withy that do spread
  Athirt the brook his grey-leav'd head.
  An' eltrot flowers, milky white,
  Do catch the slantèn evenèn light;
  An' in the meäple boughs, along
  The hedge, do ring the blackbird's zong;
  Or in the day, a-vleèn drough
  The leafy trees, the whoa'se gookoo
  Do zing to mowers that do zet
  Their zives on end, an' stan' to whet.
  From my wold house among the trees
  A leäne do goo along the leäze
  O' yollow gravel, down between
  Two mossy banks vor ever green.
  An' trees, a-hangèn overhead,
  Do hide a trinklèn gully-bed,
  A-cover'd by a bridge vor hoss
  Or man a-voot to come across.
  Zoo wi' my hwomestead, I don't ceäre
  What squire mid have a bigger sheäre!

© William Barnes