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RURAL POEMS

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POEMS

OF

RURAL LIFE

IN COMMON ENGLISH

BY WILLIAM BARNES

AUTHOR OF POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN THE DORSET DIALECT

MECA

LONDON

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1868

280. m. 202

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LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.,

NEW-STREET SQUARE

AND PARLIAMENT STREET

PREFACE

As I think that some people, beyond the bounds of Wessex, would allow me the pleasure of believing that they have deemed the matter of my homely poems in our Dorset motherspeech to be worthy of their reading, I have written a few of a like kind, in common English; not, however, without a misgiving that what I have done for a wider range of readers, may win the good opinion of fewer.

W. BARNES.

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