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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[O days of youth to me ye are so dear]
O days of youth to me ye are so dearMy bosom holds your memory so sweet
Ten thousand times I coud your charms repeat
Wispering so rapturdly in memorys ear
O ye are passing sweet—the meanest thing
That childhood occupyd wi in its year
When ere it strikes me now is more then dear
O happy times when in the smiling spring
I roamd a school boy in the sunshine hour
& chast the butterfly from flower to flower
What feelings on my memory ye fling
What mingling mixing thrills of joy & pain
Ten thousand times I coud your pleasures sing
& then leave joys to sing & sing again
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