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Ɖr r sm hîts in Wesix,
śept az f bî a cîndli hand
Fr ʈncñ, drīmñ, dayñ on,
n at crîsīz ẃn I stand,
Se, on Ñpén Bīcn īstẉd,
or on Wilznec westẉdli,
I sīm ẃr I wz bfr mî brʈ,
n aftr deʈ me b.
In ɖ lǒḷndz I hv no comred,
nt īvn ɖ lon man’z frend –
Hr hu suḟriʈ loñ n z cînd;
axpts ẃt h z tù wìc t mnd:
Dǎn ɖr ɖe r dybịs n ascans;
ɖr nbdi ʈncs az I,
Bt mîndćenz d nt clanc
ẃr wn’z nxt nebr z ɖ scî.
In ɖ tǎnz I am tráct bî fantmz
hvñ wird dtctiv wez –
Śadoz v biyñz hu feloud wɖ
mslf v rlịr dez:
Ɖe hañ abt at plesz,
n ɖe se harś hevi ʈñz –
Men wɖ a wintri snir,
n wimin wɖ tart dispaṛjñz.
Dǎn ɖr I sīm t b fōls t mslf,
mî simpl slf ɖt wz,
N z nt nǎ, n I si him woćñ,
wunḍrñ ẃt cras cōz
Cn hv mrjd him intu sć a strenj
continyetr az ɖs,
Hu yt hz smʈñ in comn
wɖ himslf, mî criṣlis.
I canot g t ɖ gret gre Plen;
ɖr’z a figr agnst ɖ mūn,
Nbdi siz it bt I, n it mcs
mî brest bìt ǎt v tyn;
I canot g t ɖ tōl-spîrd tǎn,
biyñ bàrd bî ɖ formz nǎ pást
Fr evrbdi bt m, in huz loñ viźn
ɖe stand ɖr fast.
Ɖr’z a gost at Yeḷm Botm
ćîdñ lǎd at ɖ fōl v ɖ nît,
Ɖr’z a gost in Frūm-sîd Vel,
ʈin-lipt n veg, in a śrǎd v ẃît,
Ɖr z wn in ɖ relwe tren
ẃnvr I d nt wont it nir,
I si its profîl agnst ɖ pein,
seyñ ẃt I wd nt hír.
Az fr wn rer fer wmn,
I am nǎ bt a ʈōt v hrz,
I entr hr mînd n anɖr ʈōt
s’xidz m ɖt ś prifŕz;
Yt mî luv fr hr in its flnis
ś hrslf īvn dd nt nǒ;
Wel, tîm krz harts v tndrnis,
n nǎ I cn let hr g.
So I am faund on Ñpén Bīcn,
or on Wilznec t ɖ wst,
Or els on homli Bulḅra,
or litl Pilzdn Crest,
Ẃr men hv nvr cerd t hōnt,
nr wimin hv wōct wɖ m,
N gosts ɖen cīp ɖer distns;
n I nǒ sm liḅti.
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