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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TO HOPE
Ah smiling cherub cheating hope adieuNo more I'll listen to your pleasing themes
No more your flattering scenes with joy review
For ah I've found em all delusive dreams
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No more shall you this aching heart beguile
No more your fleeting joys will I pursue
That mock'd my sorrows when they seem'd to smile
And flatterd tales that never would be true
Tales only told to aggravate distress
& make me at my fate the more repine
By wispering joys I never can posess
& painting scenes that never must be mine
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