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 power again bids grasses grow]
What power again bids grasses growUnlocks the stream & makes it run
& when the winter hurld his snow
Whose care attends the daiseys blow
& bears their bosoms to the sun
That power is great who ere he be
That warms the spring to bloom again
& from old winters killing reign
To bring to life the flower tree
To tell is it an easy task
Hark wast the wind that wistld by
Or was it nature made reply
‘Vain man why hast thou cause to ask
Look on the flower before thine eye
Een from the little daisys bloom
That smiles again upon the sod
Informing hints in silence come
To tell thy soul that powers a god’
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