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Songs of the Ridings
by F. W. Moorman
Contents:

Dedication
Preface
A Dalesman's Litany
Cambodunum
Telling
the Bees
The Two Lamplighters
Our Beck
Lord George
Jenny
Storm
The New Englishman
The Bells of Kirkby Overblow
The
gardener and the Robin
Lile Doad
His last Sail
One Year Older

The Hungry Forties
The Flowers of Knaresborough Forest
The
Miller by the Shore
The Bride's Homecoming
The Artist
Marra to
Bonney 
Mary Mecca
The Local Preacher
The Courting Gate

Fieldfares
A Song of the Yorkshire Dales
The Flower of
Wensleydale
I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME TO THE YORKSHIRE
MEMBERS OF THE WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL
ASSOCITION
Preface
About two years ago I published a collection of Yorkshire dialect
poems, chosen from many authors and extending over a period of two
hundred and fifty years(1). The volume was well received, and there
are abundant signs that the interest in dialect literature is steadily
growing in all parts of the county and beyond its borders. What is most
encouraging is to find that the book has found an entrance into the
homes of Yorkshire peasants and artisans where the works of our great
national poets are unknown. I now essay the more venturesome task of
publishing dialect verses of my own. Most of the poems contained in
this little volume have appeared, anonymously, in the Yorkshire press,
and I have now decided to reissue them in book form and