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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 | The later poems of John Clare |  |
THE NORTH STAR
There is a Star I know it well
Sun of the northern sky
That cheers the hermits lonely cell
Like heavens unerring eye
Twas there a thousand thousand years
& still in the same place appears
Sun of the northern sky
That cheers the hermits lonely cell
Like heavens unerring eye
Twas there a thousand thousand years
& still in the same place appears
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The other stars they flye about
Like lights lit in a cell
Lit up awhile & then put out
There's none knows where they dwell
But where God lit thou'rt shining still
A Lamp of heaven's eternal will
Like lights lit in a cell
Lit up awhile & then put out
There's none knows where they dwell
But where God lit thou'rt shining still
A Lamp of heaven's eternal will
The compass to the problem true
As sun is to the day
The even star that gems the dew
Take's day's last light away
Yet shines in heaven no stationed space
But wanes & others take her place
As sun is to the day
The even star that gems the dew
Take's day's last light away
Yet shines in heaven no stationed space
But wanes & others take her place
But there thou wert when Noahs ark
Its shoreless voyage went
Just where thourt stealing from the dark
Like tapers from a tent
& there thou wert at Waterloo
In the same place as now I view
Its shoreless voyage went
Just where thourt stealing from the dark
Like tapers from a tent
& there thou wert at Waterloo
In the same place as now I view
When Moses stood on Sions hight
Thy light was faithfull then
& thy beams shed unerring light
On sons of lesser men
The same as on that glorious night
When Israel slew th'Amelakites
Thy light was faithfull then
& thy beams shed unerring light
On sons of lesser men
The same as on that glorious night
When Israel slew th'Amelakites
Thou lone & solitary star
A lamp oer oceans pathless brine
Beacon to those who travel far
Upon this hemisphere is thine
Such light is by religion given
To light our blinded way to heaven
A lamp oer oceans pathless brine
Beacon to those who travel far
Upon this hemisphere is thine
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To light our blinded way to heaven
| The later poems of John Clare | |