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From Dawn ’till Dusk
As dawn breaks so wakes our little hamlet in the vale;
Down its cobbled hill go the wheelwrights’ rattle
and the clatter of the shodden hoof
and percussion of the pales!
Before the ‘hapless’ and unhappy kith and kin
Weave woefully meanderings to school,
And bade betwixt, are the learned precepts for the day
Until their chatter and the latter cheer
Of the raucous journey home…
Over the same but untroubled cobbles of the dawn!
Down where the bulbed-pear orchard, in this early spring
Flakes its snow-white pettle-fall!
Soon appley-bough’s blushed pink in the bud
Over the sandstone ridge will be falling;
Later comes the daily trudge from the pit,
Spent and slag blackened from the blind and blinkered,
Swinging his swag and pick, hob-nailing in the grit and grind
Upon the Apply Bridge by a still stone-dresser…they chatt…
A distant camber signals a late ploughing:
White gull wheeling amingling the corvine black;
As the gloaming bades so fades to sleeping
Our cosey hamlet in the vale and the smoking stack.