"AND YONDER BY THE CIRCLING STACK" John Clare c. 183? or 184? ========================================== And yonder by the circling stack Provoking any eye to smile A pye perched on the heifers back Pulls hair to line her nest the while That winds upon the high oak rocks The threat of every coming storm Yet still it stands the rudest shocks A sweeing cradle snug and warm ======== ========