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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EVENING
Now glareing daylight's usher'd to a CloseAnd nursing eve her soothing care renews
To welcome weary Labour to repose
And cherish nature with reviveing dews
Hail cooling sweets that breathe so sweetly here
Hail lovly eve who's hours so lovly prove
Thy silent calm to solitude so dear
And O this darkness dearer still to love
Now the fond lover seeks thy silent plains
And with his charmer in fond dalliance strays
Vowing his love & telling jealous pains
Which fearful fancy in their abscence raise
Ah tho such pleasures center not in me
I love to wander & converse with thee
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