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POEMS OF RURAL LIFE.

“Your cup,” his daughter cried;
“Vill’d up,” his wife replied;
“Aye, aye; a drap avore my nap,”
Cried worthy Bloom the miller.

When Lon’on vok did meäke a show
 O’ their girt glassen house woone year,
An’ people went, bwoth high an’ low,
 To zee the zight, vrom vur an’ near,
“O well,” cried Bloom, “why I’ve a right
So well’s the rest to zee the zight;
I’ll goo, an’ teäke the raïl outright.”
“Your feäre,” the booker cried;
“There, there,” good Bloom replied;
“Why this June het do meäke woone zweat,”
Cried worthy Bloom the miller,

Then up the guard did whissle sh’ill,
 An’ then the engine pank’d a-blast,
An’ rottled on so loud’s a mill,
 Avore the traïn, vrom slow to vast.
An’ oh! at last how they did spank
By cuttèn deep, an’ high-cast bank
The while their iron ho’se did pank.
“Do whizzy,” woone o’m cried;
“I’m dizzy,” woone replied;
“Aye, here’s the road to hawl a lwoad,”
Cried worthy Bloom the miller.

In Lon’on John zent out to call
 A tidy trap, that he mid ride
To zee the glassen house, an’ all
 The lot o’ things a-stow’d inside.
“Here, Boots, come here,” cried he, “I’ll dab
A sixpence in your han’ to nab
Down street a tidy little cab.”