Or a thinkin' of nothin' but down at the tide
Singin' out for the happy you feel inside
T. E. Brown (1830-1897), the Victorian poet, is scarcely remembered today except for his much quoted poem ' A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot.' Brown was born in the Isle of Man and, apart from his more conventional poems, he wrote many poems in the Manx dialect which are unique in English poetry.
Sir John Betjeman talks about the poet, and some of the dialect poetry is read by another Manx poet,
WILLIAM BEALBY-WRIGHT