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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SONNET
[Tween evenings farewell & the nights approach]
Tween evenings farewell & the nights approachI love to linger on the garden seat
While glooms around me sluggishly encroach
Or in some neighbouring spot short walks repeat
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Where longest clings the memory of the day
To see it fade & fade till colorless
The painted record vanishes away
In times turned pages to be seen no more
Yet gloomy night shall but awhile delay
The past days offspring that hath smiles in store
As lovely as the first Oh it is sweet
To prove by this when deaths long night is oer
That we shall wake another world to meet
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