The early poems of John Clare 1804-1822: General editor Eric Robinson: Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell: Associate editor Margaret Grainger |
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CRAZY JANE
A Fragment
Hark what shrill mournful strains
Sounds from yon lonely plains
Where the low-bending willow
Drips thro the mimic billow
Rais'd by the adverse winds that curl the stream
How mournfully and plain
Their dying langour on the breezes seem
Say from what throat
Or is this note?
The song of Crazy Jane!—
Sounds from yon lonely plains
Where the low-bending willow
Drips thro the mimic billow
Rais'd by the adverse winds that curl the stream
How mournfully and plain
Their dying langour on the breezes seem
Say from what throat
Or is this note?
The song of Crazy Jane!—
Ye swains from whence and where?
Comes this sad grief so drear?
It must be,—(O' so grieveing)
Some loss thats past reprieving
Or hope forlorn that never will return
—They'r dumb;—Enquirey's vain
Then lead me on ye sounds and let's descern
And further know
If all this woe
Come's from poor Crazy Jane.
Comes this sad grief so drear?
It must be,—(O' so grieveing)
Some loss thats past reprieving
Or hope forlorn that never will return
—They'r dumb;—Enquirey's vain
Then lead me on ye sounds and let's descern
And further know
If all this woe
Come's from poor Crazy Jane.
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