Accelerate to on-quicken. Accent word-strain. Acoustics sound-lore. Aeronaut air-farer. Alienate to un-friend. Ancestor fore-elder. Aphorisms thought-cullings. Botany wort-lore. Democracy folkdom. Deteriorate worsen. Equilibrium weight-evenness. Equivalent worth-evenness. Foliate to leafen. Initial word-head. Thomas Hardy's note on the genius of his dead friend is a generous estimate: "Unlike Burns, Béranger, and other poets of the people, Barnes never assumed the high conventional style, and he entirely leaves alone ambition, pride, despair, defiance, and other of the grander passions which move mankind, great and small. His rustics are as a rule happy people, and very seldom feel the sting of the rest of modern mankind--the disproportion between the desire for serenity and the power of obtaining it. One naturally thinks of Crabbe in this connection, but though they touch at points, Crabbe goes much further than Barnes in questioning the justice of circumstance. Their pathos, after all, is the attribute upon which the poems must depend for their endurance; and the incidents which embody it are those of everyday cottage life, tinged throughout with that 'light that never was,' which the emotional art of the lyrist can project upon the commonest things. It is impossible to prophesy, but surely much English literature will be forgotten when _Woak Hill_ is still read for its intense pathos, _Blackmore Maidens_ for its blitheness, and _In the Spring_ for its Arcadian ecstasy." In 1896 he published a copy of _Early English and the Saxon English_. In this he traces both Angles and Saxons. It was his idea that the ancient dykes which cut up so much of our land were delved by them to mark their settlements rather than to use in the case of warfare. He also sturdily asserted that the Britons were accomplished road-makers before the Romans came, and that the Romans merely improved roads already existing. The poem of _Woak Hill_ is based on a Persian form of metre called _The Pearl_, because the rhymes are supposed to represent a series of beads upon a rosary. The pearl, or sequence of assonance, is shown in the second word in the last line of each stanza: "When sycamore-trees were a-spreading Green-ruddy in hedges Beside the red dust of the ridges A-dried at Woak Hill, I packed up my goods all a-shining With long years of handling On dusty red wheels of a waggon To ride at Woak Hill. The brown thatchen roof of the dwelling I then were a-leaving Had sheltered the sleek head of Mary My bride at Woak Hill. But now for some years her light footfall 'S a-lost from the flooring. Too soon for my joy and my children She died at Woak Hill.