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Supper removed the mother sits	A
And tells her tales by starts and fits	A
Not willing to lose time or toil	B
She knits or sews and talks the while	C
Something that may be warnings found	D
To the young listeners gaping round	D
Of boys who in her early day	E
Strolled to the meadow lake to play	E
Where willows oer the bank inclined	F
Sheltered the water from the wind	F
And left it scarcely crizzled oer	G
When one sank in to rise no more	G
And how upon a market night	H
When not a star bestowed its light	H
A farmer's shepherd oer his glass	I
Forgot that he had woods to pass	I
And having sold his master's sheep	J
Was overta'en by darkness deep	J
How coming with his startled horse	K
To where two roads a hollow cross	L
Where lone guide when a stranger strays	M
A white post points four different ways	M
Beside the woodride's lonely gate	N
A murdering robber lay in wait	N
The frightened horse with broken rein	O
Stood at the stable door again	P
But none came home to fill his rack	Q
Or take the saddle from his back	Q
The saddle it was all he bore	G
The man was seen alive no more	G
In her young days beside the wood	R
The gibbet in its terror stood	R
Though now decayed tis not forgot	S
But dreaded as a haunted spot	S
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She from her memory oft repeats	T
Witches' dread powers and fairy feats	T
How one has oft been known to prance	U
In cowcribs like a coach to France	U
And ride on sheep trays from the fold	V
A race horse speed to Burton hold	V
To join the midnight mystery's rout	W
Where witches meet the yews about	W
And how when met with unawares	X
They turn at once to cats or hares	X
And race along with hellish flight	H
Now here now there now out of sight	H
And how the other tiny things	Y
Will leave their moonlight meadow rings	Y
And unperceived through key holes creep	J
When all around have sunk to sleep	J
To feast on what the cotter leaves	Z
Mice are not reckoned greater thieves	Z
They take away as well as eat	A2
And still the housewife's eye they cheat	A2
In spite of all the folks that swarm	B2
In cottage small and larger farm	C2
They through each key hole pop and pop	D2
Like wasps into a grocer's shop	D2
With all the things that they can win	E2
From chance to put their plunder in	E2
As shells of walnuts split in two	F2
By crows who with the kernels flew	F2
Or acorn cups by stock doves plucked	G2
Or egg shells by a cuckoo sucked	G2
With broad leaves of the sycamore	G
They clothe their stolen dainties oer	G
And when in cellar they regale	F2
Bring hazel nuts to hold their ale	F2
With bung holes bored by squirrels well	F2
To get the kernel from the shell	F2
Or maggots a way out to win	E2
When all is gone that grew within	E2
And be the key holes eer so high	H2
Rush poles a ladder's help supply	H2
Where soft the climbers fearless tread	I2
On spindles made of spiders' thread	I2
And foul or fair or dark the night	H
Their wild fire lamps are burning bright	H
For which full many a daring crime	J2
Is acted in the summer time	J2
When glow worm found in lanes remote	K2
Is murdered for its shining coat	K2
And put in flowers that nature weaves	Z
With hollow shapes and silken leaves	Z
Such as the Canterbury bell	F2
Serving for lamp or lantern well	F2
Or following with unwearied watch	L2
The flight of one they cannot match	M2
As silence sliveth upon sleep	J
Or thieves by dozing watch dogs creep	J
They steal from Jack a Lantern's tails	N2
A light whose guidance never fails	N2
To aid them in the darkest night	H
And guide their plundering steps aright	H
Rattling away in printless tracks	O2
Some housed on beetles' glossy backs	O2
Go whisking on and others hie	P2
As fast as loaded moths can fly	H2
Some urge the morning cock to shun	Q2
The hardest gallop mice can run	Q2
In chariots lolling at their ease	R2
Made of whateer their fancies please	R2
Things that in childhood's memory dwell	F2
Scooped crow pot stone or cockle shell	F2
With wheels at hand of mallow seeds	S2
Where childish sport was stringing beads	S2
And thus equipped they softly pass	I
Like shadows on the summer grass	I
And glide away in troops together	G
Just as the Spring wind drives a feather	G
As light as happy dreams they creep	J
Nor break the feeblest link of sleep	J
A midge if in their road a bed	H
Feels not the wheels run oer his head	H
But sleeps till sunrise calls him up	T2
Unconscious of the passing troop	U2
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Thus dame the winter night regales	N2
With wonder's never ceasing tales	N2
While in a corner ill at ease	R2
Or crushing tween their father's knees	R2
The children silent all the while	F2
And een repressed the laugh or smile	F2
Quake with the ague chills of fear	G
And tremble though they love to hear	G
Starting while they the tales recall	F2
At their own shadows on the wall	F2
Till the old clock that strikes unseen	V2
Behind the picture pasted screen	V2
Where Eve and Adam still agree	G
To rob Life's fatal apple tree	G
Counts over bed time's hour of rest	H
And bids each be sleep's fearful guest	H
She then her half told tales will leave	W2
To finish on to morrow's eve	W2
The children steal away to bed	H
And up the ladder softly tread	H
Scarce daring from their fearful joys	X2
To look behind or make a noise	X2
Nor speak a word but still as sleep	J
They secret to their pillows creep	J
And whisper oer in terror's way	E
The prayers they dare no louder say	E
Then hide their heads beneath the clothes	Y2
And try in vain to seek repose	Z2
While yet to fancy's sleepless eye	H2
Witches on sheep trays gallop by	H2
And fairies like a rising spark	A3
Swarm twittering round them in the dark	A3
Till sleep creeps nigh to ease their cares	X
And drops upon them unawares	X

John Clare

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