the castle of adventure
high upon the hill
the quiet little village
where is the flowing rivers mill
the tumbling heather meadows
the grassy purbeck tracks
the wayward traveler returns
a rucksack on his back
the high point oer the valley
the twinkling summer nights
the seaside and the meadows
the stones of purbeck white
the harbor and the mainland
the pottery and the park
where the dolphins swims at daybreak
at the singing of the lark
its the Hardy blooming country
where the Barnes tall statue stands
where dorsets tolpuddle martyrs
once formed a loyal band
and john the artist painted
gypsies o so grand
theres the little commonwealth shaftesbury school
i view the camp where Lawrence rode
near the liitle meadow haystacks
herein lived the wareham miller mad
the markets and the country folk
the squires and granddad
by the lady wimborne cottage
the dairies sold their milk
by the cowsheds and the rivers
where the wandering minstrels made their sounds
neath grassed walls around
the olde wareham town
soft down beneath your head
a flower for your pretty hand
and garlands for your bed
a rose to plant beneath the bough
and a kiss beneath the leaves
hear the roaring of the sea
its a dorset life for me