Geburts-Daak--An mei˛ Alti. Oo wass is schennǝr uf dǝr welt _=dass=_ blimlin, root un weiss? un bloo un _=geel=_,[47] im ærblǝ[48] felt wass sin sii doch so _neis_! Ich wees noch guut, in _=seller=_ tseit hab ich niks liiwǝrs duu˛[49] _=dass=_ in dii wissǝ--lang un breit so blimlin ksuucht wii duu. Doch iss ǝs schun ǝ lang-i tseit sid'r ích dart ín dem felt, dii blimlin ksuucht, uf lang un breit, un uf dei˛ _bussǝm_ _=kschpellt=_. D'r hent ǝmool ǝ gærtl kat-- mei˛ schwestǝrli un duu; ich hab s _pripeerd_ mit hak un schpaat dii blummǝ nei˛ tsu duu˛; un wuu ich hab im grossi _=schweel=_, dii kii dart _=hinnǝ=_ ksuucht, dii _leedi-schlippǝrss_, weiss un _=geel=_, hab ich mit, heem gebracht, un hab sii in _=sel=_ gærtl plantst bei nacht, in muundǝs licht: d'r _=hent=_ s net gwist, bis juscht _æt wantst_[51] _=hent=_ diir s ge_gest_ s war mich. Birthday--To my Wife. Oh what is finer in the world than flowrets red and white? and blue and yellow in the field how beautiful and bright. I know yet well that in that time, nought would I rather do, than in the meadows long and wide such flowrets seek as you. Yet it is quite a lengthened time, since I in yonder field, sought out the flowers far and wide, and on thy bosom pinned. You also had a garden bed-- you and my sister fair, which I prepared with hoe and spade to set the flowers there; and where I in the ample vale[50] the cattle there had sought, the lady-slippers, gold, and pale, with me I homeward brought, and in that garden bed at night I set them when the moon was light. You did not know who it could be, but all at once you thought of me. § 2. PG. _not Bavarian_. PG., Bavarian, Austrian and Suabian have the vowel of _fall_, and nasal vowels. In Pangkofer's _Gedichte in Altbayerischer Mundart_, are the PG. words 'aa' _also;_ 'bissel' _a little;_ 'ebbas,' G. etwas _something;_ 'do is' _there is;_ 'glei' (also Austrian) _soon;_ 'sunst,' G. sonst _besides;_ 'frumm,' G. fromm _kind;_ 'kloo' _claw;_ 'kumma,' G. gekommen _come;_ Ohg. 'coman' and 'cuman' _to come;_ 'mir' _we_, for G. wir; 'sel' G. dasselbe _that-same;_ but PG. has not 'mi' _me;_ 'di' _thee;_ 'hoarn' _horn;_ 'hout' _has;_ 'thuan' _to do;_ 'g'spoasz,' _sport;_ 'oamal' _once;_ 'zwoa' _two,_ G. zwei, PG. 'tswee'; wei, PG. 'weip' _wife;_ zon, PG. 'tsum' _to the_. The following example of upper Bavarian is given by Klein,[52] beside which a PG. version is placed for comparison. "Schau, nachbe', wàs mei' freud' is,-- In suntàe', in der frûe, Gern lûs' i' in mei'n gâârt'l 'n kircheläut'n zue.