The Day O’ Judgement
Fower angels w’'t’trumpits at their lip
’ll start to play, one on ev’ry corner,
by christ they won’t ’alf let ’em bloody rip:
then shahtin’, ’ll sey: ‘who’s next, let’s ’av’yer.’
Then score on score o’ sheepish skeletuns
’ll rammle up from t’earth to’t’final pen,
to get their ’uman faces back, themsuns!
like little chicks what crowd round t’muther ’en.
This ’en ’ll be t’oly fatther imsel,
and ’e’ll divide ’em up in two on’t’oof:
some black an’ some white, so’s ’e can tell
who’s off to’t’cellar an’ who’s off to’t’roof.
Last a drove o’r’Angels ’ll turn out’t’light,
an’ like it wer bedtime, that’s it, night night.
’ll start to play, one on ev’ry corner,
by christ they won’t ’alf let ’em bloody rip:
then shahtin’, ’ll sey: ‘who’s next, let’s ’av’yer.’
Then score on score o’ sheepish skeletuns
’ll rammle up from t’earth to’t’final pen,
to get their ’uman faces back, themsuns!
like little chicks what crowd round t’muther ’en.
This ’en ’ll be t’oly fatther imsel,
and ’e’ll divide ’em up in two on’t’oof:
some black an’ some white, so’s ’e can tell
who’s off to’t’cellar an’ who’s off to’t’roof.
Last a drove o’r’Angels ’ll turn out’t’light,
an’ like it wer bedtime, that’s it, night night.
Hawthornden Castle, 31st March 2005
Translated by Paul Howard
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