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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What time the cricket unmolested sings& blundering beetles try their clumbsy wings
Leave me to meet the sweets of evens hour
By awthorn hedges when the mays in flower
Wi light enough to guide my cautious tread
As not to trample on the daiseys head
Down padded pathways of a wisht extent
As unmolested by the bending bent
That night & morning bowing down wi dew
Sullies the brightness of the maidens shoe
There leave me musing neath the bowering ash
Counting the knoll of bells or spurting dash
Of limmering fountain fall wi wild delight
Till even looses in the blank of night
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