SUMMER MOODS
            John Clare
                p. 1835
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I love at eventide to walk alone
Down narrow lanes oerhung with dewy thorn
Where from the long grass underneath--the snail
Jet black creeps out & sprouts his timid horn
I love to muse oer meadows newly mown
Where withering grass perfumes the sultry air
Where bees search round with sad & weary drone
In vain for flowers that bloomed but newly there
While in the juicey corn the hidden quail
Cries "wet my foot" and hid as thoughts unborn
The fairy like & seldom-seen land rail
Utters "craik craik" like voices underground
Right glad to meet the evenings dewy veil
& see the light fade into glooms around


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