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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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[We passed the Canterbury bell]

We passed the Canterbury bell,
The meadow-sweet like feathers,
The blanket camps, where gipsies dwell,
And asses graze in tethers.
(ii. 334)