The Dorset Shepherd.

A sculpture in Dorchester inspired by a William Barnes Poem. The sculptor is John Doubleday and the poem is "The Shepherd O' the Farm." Here are the first two of ten verses....I don't think it will translate well as it is in the old Dorset dialect!!

Oh! I be shepherd o’ the farm,
Wi’ tinklèn bells an’ sheep-dog’s bark,
An’ wi’ my crook a-thirt my eärm,
Here I do rove below the lark.

An’ I do bide all day among
The bleäten sheep, an’ pitch their vwold;
An’ when the evenèn sheädes be long,
Do zee em all a-penn’d an’ twold.