Poetry & Verse
The Cottager
By John ClareSource: John Clare - PoetryDB (Public Domain)714 words
True as the church clock hand the hour pursues He plods about his toils and reads the news, And at the blacksmith's shop his hour...
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True as the church clock hand the hour pursues He plods about his toils and reads the news, And at the blacksmith's shop his hour will stand To talk of "Lunun" as a foreign land. For from his cottage door in peace or strife He neer went fifty miles in all his life. His knowledge with old notions still combined Is twenty years behind the march of mind.…
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