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Love and thy vain employs away	A
From this too oft deluded breast	B
No longer will I court thy stay	A
To be my bosom's teazing guest	B
Thou treacherous medicine reckoned pure	C
Thou quackery of the harassed heart	D
That kills what it pretends to cure	C
Life's mountebank thou art	D
	-
With nostrums vain of boasted powers	E
That ta'en a worse disorder leave	F
An asp hid in a group of flowers	E
That bites and stings when few perceive	F
Thou mock truce to the troubled mind	G
Leading it more in sorrow's way	A
Freedom that leaves us more confined	G
I bid thee hence away	A
	-
Dost taunt and deem thy power beyond	H
The resolution reason gave	I
Tut Falsity hath snapt each bond	H
That kept me once thy quiet slave	I
And made thy snare a spider's thread	J
Which een my breath can break in twain	K
Nor will I be like Sampson led	J
To trust thy wiles again	L
	-
I took thee as my staff to guide	M
Me on the road I did pursue	N
And when my weakness most relied	M
Upon its strength it broke in two	N
I took thee as my friendly host	O
That counsel might in dangers show	P
But when I needed thee the most	O
I found thou wert my foe	P
	-
Tempt me no more with rosy cheeks	Q
Nor daze my reason with bright eyes	R
I'm wearied with thy painted freaks	Q
And sicken at such vanities	S
Be roses fine as eer they will	T
They with the meanest fade and die	U
And eyes though thronged with darts to kill	T
Share like mortality	V
Feed the young bard that madly sips	W
His nectar draughts from folly's flowers	E
Bright eyes fair cheeks and ruby lips	W
Till muses melt to honey showers	E
Lure him to thrum thy empty lays	X
While flattery listens to the chimes	Y
Till words themselves grow sick with praise	X
And stop for want of rhymes	Y
	-
Let such be still thy paramours	Y
And chaunt love's old and idle tune	Z
Robbing the spring of all its flowers	Y
And heaven of all her stars and moon	Z
To gild with dazzling similes	Y
Blind folly's vain and empty lay	A
I'm sobered from such phantasies	Y
So get thee hence away	A
	-
Nor bid me sigh for mine own cost	A2
Nor count its loss for mine annoy	B2
Nor say my stubbornness hath lost	C2
A paradise of dainty joy	B2
I'll not believe thee till I know	P
That sober reason turns an ape	D2
And acts the harlequin to show	P
That cares in every shape	D2
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Heart achings sighs and grief wrung tears	Y
Shame blushes at betrayed distress	Y
Dissembled smiles and jealous fears	Y
Are nought but real happiness	Y
Then will I mourn what now I brave	I
And suffer Celia's quirks to be	V
Like a poor fate bewilder'd slave	I
The rulers of my destiny	V
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I'll weep and sigh wheneer she wills	Y
To frown and when she deigns to smile	E2
It shall be cure for all my ills	Y
And foolish still I'll laugh the while	E2
But till that comes I'll bless the rules	Y
Experience taught and deem it wise	Y
To hold thee as the game of fools	Y
And all thy tricks despise	Y

John Clare

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