The later poems of John Clare 1837-1864 ... General editor Eric Robinson: Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell: Associate editor Margaret Grainger |
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[Scenes of love and days of pleasure]
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Scenes of love and days of pleasureI must leave them all lassie
Scenes of love and hours of leisure
All are gone for aye lassie
No more thy velvet bordered dress
My fond and longing een shall bless
Thou lily in a wilderness
And who shall love thee then lassie
Long I've watched thy look so tender
Often clasped thy waist so slender
Heaven in thy love defend her
When I'm o'er the sea lassie
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By the falls of proud NiagaraSoon I'll hear the roar lassie
Then I'll think of bonny Mary
On a foreign shore lassie
Where the dog star burns and broils
And the chasms chaldron boils
Whose spray the very heaven assails
There I'm going to bide lassie
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By all the faith I've shown afore theeI'll sware by more than that lassie
By heaven and earth I'll still adore thee
Though we should part for aye lassie
By thy infant years so [loving]
By thy womans love so moving
That white breast thy goodness proving
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By the sun that shines for ever
By loves light and its own giver
That loveth truth and erreth never
I'm thine for aye and all lassie
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