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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SABBATH WALKS
Upon the sabbath sweet it is to walkNeath wood side shelter of oaks spreading trees
Or by a hedge row track a padded balk
Or stretch neath willows on the meadow leas
Listning delighted hums of passing bees
& curious pausing on the blossoms head
& mark the spider at his labour free
Spin[n]ing from bent to bent his silken thread
& labouring ants by carful nature led
To make the most of summers plentious stay
& lady cow beneath its leafy shed
Calld when I mixt wi childern clock-a-clay
Pruning its red wings on its pleasing bed
Glad like my self to shun the heat of day
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