Well it looks like fairly straightforward dialect to *me* (born 15 miles from Haworth)

It was far in the night, and the bairnies grat. The mither beneath the mools heard that

bairnies = informal form of Bairns, childer, babies grat = greet, cried mither = mother mools = moulds, earth

i.e. even a dead mother can hear the children cry. In the locality, though, we would say 'skrike', not greet - that's from further north.

There again, much of yorkshire/lancashire dialect is Danish/Norse in origin (see above posts) so ...

Med Venlige Hilsen ;O)

Austin