LAL DINAH GRAYSON.

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AL Dinah Grayson’s fresh, fewsome, an’ free,
Wid a lilt iv her step an’ a glent iv her e’e;
She glowers ebbem at mÉ whativer I say
An’ meÀstly mak’s answer wid “M’appen I may!”
“M’appen I may,” she says, “m’appen I may;
Thou thinks I believe the’, an’ m’appen I may!”
Gay offen, when Dinah I mannish to meet
O’ M?ndays, i’t’ market i’ Cockerm’uth street,
I whisper “Thou’s nicer nor owte here to day,”
An’ she cocks up her chin an’ says, “M’appen I may!
M’appen I may, my lad, m’appen I may;
There’s nowte here to crack on, an’ m’appen I may!”
She’s smart oot o’ dooars—she’s tidy i’t’ hoose;
Snod as a mowdy-warp—sleek as a moose.
I’ blue goon, i’ black goon, i’ green goon or grey,
I tell her she’s reeght, an’ git “M’appen I may!”
“M’appen I may,” she’ll say, “m’appen I may,
Thou kens lal aboot it, but m’appen I may!”
There’s n?t mickle on her,—we ken ’at gud stuff
Laps up i’ lal bundles, an’ she’s lal aneuf;
There’s nowte aboot Dinah were better away
But her comical2 ower-w?rd “M’appen I may.”
“M’appen I may,” it’s still, “m’appen I may.”
Whativer yan wants yan gits “m’appen I may!”
An’ it shaps to be smittal; whoariver I gang,
I can’t tell a stwory—I can’t sing a sang—
I can’t hod a crack, nay!—I can’t read nor pray
Widout bringin’ in her dang’t “M’appen I may.”
“M’appen I may,” it c?ms, “m’appen I may;”
Asteed of Amen, I say “m’appen I may.”
But she met me ya neeght aside Pards’aw Lea yatt—
I tock her seÀf heÀm, but I keep’t her oot leÀt,
An’ offen I said i’ my oan canny way,
“Will t’É like me a lal bit?”—“Whey,—M’appen I may!
M’appen I may, Harry—m’appen I may;
Thou’s rayder a hoaf-thick, but m’appen I may!”
I prist her to wed mÉ—I said I was pooar,
But eddlin aneuf to keep hung-er frayt’ dooar.
She leuk’t i’ my feÀce, an’ than, hoaf turn’t away,
She hung doon her heid an’ said “M’appen I may!
M’appen I may”—(low doon)—“m’appen I may,
I think thou means fairly, an’ m’appen I may.”
We’re hingin’ i’t’ bell reÀps3—to t’ parson I’ve toak’t,
An’ I gev him a hint as he maffelt an’ jwoak’t,
To mind when she sud say “love, honour, OBEY,”
’At she doesn’t slip through wid her “M’appen I may.”
M’appen I may, may be—m’appen I may,
But we moont put up than wid a “m’appen I may.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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