Two An’ Two

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The zun, O Jessie, while his feäce do rise
  In vi'ry skies, a-sheddèn out his light
  On yollow corn a-weävèn down below
  His yollow glow, is gaÿ avore the zight.
  By two an' two,
  How goodly things do goo,
  A-matchèn woone another to fulvill
  The goodness ov their Meäkèr's will.

  How bright the spreadèn water in the lew
  Do catch the blue, a-sheenèn vrom the sky;
  How true the grass do teäke the dewy bead
  That it do need, while dousty roads be dry.
  By peäir an' peäir
  Each thing's a-meäde to sheäre
  The good another can bestow,
  In wisdom's work down here below.

  The lowest lim's o' trees do seldom grow
  A-spread too low to gi'e the cows a sheäde;
  The aïr's to bear the bird, the bird's to rise;
  Vor light the eyes, vor eyes the light's a-meäde.
  'Tis gi'e an' teäke,
  An' woone vor others' seäke;
  In peäirs a-workèn out their ends,
  Though men be foes that should be friends.

© William Barnes