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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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[When she got too far off, why I'd something to tell]

When she got too far off, why I'd something to tell;
So I sent sighs behind her, and talk'd to mysell.
(ii. 43)