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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ANXIETY
One oer heaths wandering in a pitch dark nightMaking to sounds that hope some village near
Hermit retreating to a chinky light
Long lost in winding caverns dark & drear
A slave long banish'd from his country dear
By freedom left to seek his native plains
A soldier absent many a long long year
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A thirsty labourer wight that wistful strains
O'er the steep hanging bank to reach the stream
A hope delay so lingeringly detains
We still in point of its disclosure seems
These pictures weakly 'zemble to the eye
A faint Existance of Anxiety
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