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The later poems of John Clare

1837-1864 ... General editor Eric Robinson: Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell: Associate editor Margaret Grainger
Clare, John (1793-1864)

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Volume I
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Poems written at High Beach, Epping, 1837–1841, and at Northborough, 1841
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Poems written in Northampton Asylum, 1842–1864
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Volume II

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SCOTLAND

[Auld Scotland's woods auld Scotland's braes]

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Auld Scotland's woods auld Scotland's braes
Where dews the sweetest fa'
'Tis nature in her sunday claes
The dearest land o' a'

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It bangs all lands beneath the sun
All lands ayont the sea
That land o' mists is freedoms ain
To every Scottish e'e
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The biggen by the mountain side
Aboon the rocks sae grand
The mountain fir that waves in pride
Oerleukin half the land

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The burnie rimpling alang
And laughing as it rins
Plays Scottish music a the day
Among the broom and w[h]ins

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O bonny are the highland hills
That overleuk the sea
The mountain and the siller rills
Nae sweeter land can be
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