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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MAY-NOON
How sweet it is when suns get warmly highIn the mid noon as mays first cowslip springs
& the young cuckoos mellow ditty sings
To wander out & take ones book & lye
Neath some low pasture bush by giggling springs
That shakes the sprouting flag as crimpling bye
Or when the sunshine freckles on the eye
Thro the half clothed branches in the woods
Where [h]airy leaves of woodbines scrambling nigh
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& little rippling runnels curl their floods
Bathing the primrose peep strawberry wild
& little cuckoos creeping from their hoods
With the sweet season like their bard beguild
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