Come
Wull
ye
come
in
eärly
Spring,
Come
at
Easter,
or
in
Maÿ?
Or
when
Whitsuntide
mid
bring
Longer
light
to
show
your
waÿ?
Wull
ye
come,
if
you
be
true,
Vor
to
quicken
love
anew.
Wull
ye
call
in
Spring
or
Fall?
Come
now
soon
by
zun
or
moon?
Wull
ye
come?
Come
wi'
vaïce
to
vaïce
the
while
All
their
words
be
sweet
to
hear;
Come
that
feäce
to
feäce
mid
smile,
While
their
smiles
do
seem
so
dear;
Come
within
the
year
to
seek
Woone
you
have
sought
woonce
a
week?
Come
while
flow'rs
be
on
the
bow'rs.
And
the
bird
o'
zong's
a-heärd.
Wull
ye
come?
Ees
come
_to_
ye,
an'
come
_vor_
ye,
is
my
word,
I
wull
come.
William Barnes
William Barnes, (born Feb. 22, 1801, Bagber, near Sturminster Newton, Dorsetshire, Eng.—died Oct. 7, 1886, Winterbourne Came, Dorsetshire), English dialect poet whose work gives a vivid picture of the life and labour of rural southwestern England and includes some moving expressions of loss and grief, such as “The Wife A-Lost” and “Woak Hill.” He was also a gifted philologist, and his linguistic theories as well as his poetry influenced two major writers, Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins.