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These are our poets, and these are their subjects. They serve 

 to give us a bond of brotherhood one to another, and to bind us 

 with still stronger ties to our hills and valleys, to our native 

 customs and dialects, and to the remembrances of the friends and 

 the scenery amid which our lives are cast ; and they seem to say 

 to us in the words of one of them (Anderson) with which I may 

 well conclude this paper : — 



We help yen anudder — we welcome the stranger. 



Ourselves and our country we'll iwer defend ; 

 We pay bits o' taxes as weel as we're yebble. 



And pray, leyke true Britons, the war hed an end. 

 Then Cummerlan' lads, an' ye lish rwosy lasses. 



If some caw ye clownish, ye needn't think shem ; 

 Be merry and wise, enjoy innocent pleasures. 



And still seek for peace and contentment at yem. 



[Note by the Editor.— For further information upon the subject of this 

 paper, the reader should refer to "Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the 

 Lake Country," First, Second, and Third Series; "Popular Poetry of 

 Cumberland and the Lake Country; Gibson's "Folk .Speech of Cumberland," 

 &c., published by Messrs. Coward, Carlisle.] 



