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Soon as the twilight through the distant mist	A
In silver hemmings skirts the purple east	B
Ere yet the sun unveils his smiles to view	C
And dries the morning's chilly robes of dew	C
Young Hodge the horse boy with a soodly gait	D
Slow climbs the stile or opes the creaky gate	D
With willow switch and halter by his side	E
Prepared for Dobbin whom he means to ride	E
The only tune he knows still whistling oer	F
And humming scraps his father sung before	F
As 'Wantley Dragon ' and the 'Magic Rose '	G
The whole of music that his village knows	H
Which wild remembrance in each little town	I
From mouth to mouth through ages handles down	I
Onward he jolls nor can the minstrel throngs	J
Entice him once to listen to their songs	J
Nor marks he once a blossom on his way	K
A senseless lump of animated clay	K
With weather beaten hat of rusty brown	I
Stranger to brinks and often to a crown	I
With slop frock suiting to the ploughman's taste	L
Its greasy skirtings twisted round his waist	L
And hardened high lows clenched with nails around	M
Clamping defiance oer the stoney ground	M
The deadly foes to many a blossomed sprout	N
That luckless meets him in his morning's rout	N
In hobbling speed he roams the pasture round	M
Till hunted Dobbin and the rest are found	M
Where some from frequent meddlings of his whip	O
Well know their foe and often try to slip	O
While Dobbin tamed by age and labour stands	P
To meet all trouble from his brutish hands	P
And patient goes to gate or knowly brake	Q
The teasing burden of his foe to take	Q
Who soon as mounted with his switching weals	P
Puts Dob's best swiftness in his heavy heels	P
The toltering bustle of a blundering trot	R
Which whips and cudgels neer increased a jot	R
Though better speed was urged by the clown	I
And thus he snorts and jostles to the town	I
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And now when toil and summer's in its prime	S
In every vill at morning's earliest time	S
To early risers many a Hodge is seen	T
And many a Dob's heard clattering oer the green	T
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Now straying beams from day's unclosing eye	U
In copper coloured patches flush the sky	U
And from night's prison strugglingly encroach	V
To bring the summons of warm day's approach	V
Till slowly mounting oer the ridge of clouds	P
That yet half shows his face and half enshrouds	P
The unfettered sun takes his unbounded reign	W
And wakes all life to noise and toil again	X
And while his opening mellows oer the scenes	P
Of wood and field their many mingling greens	P
Industry's bustling din once more devours	P
The soothing peace of morning's early hours	P
The grunt of hogs freed from their nightly dens	P
And constant cacklings of new laying hens	P
And ducks and geese that clamorous joys repeat	Y
The splashing comforts of the pond to meet	Y
And chirping sparrows dropping from the eaves	P
For offal kernels that the poultry leaves	P
Oft signal calls of danger chittering high	U
At skulking cats and dogs approaching nigh	U
And lowing steers that hollow echoes wake	Q
Around the yard their nightly fast to break	Q
As from each barn the lumping flail rebounds	P
In mingling concert with the rural sounds	P
While oer the distant fields more faintly creep	Z
The murmuring bleatings of unfolding sheep	Z
And ploughman's callings that more hoarse proceed	A2
Where industry still urges labour's speed	A2
The bellowing of cows with udders full	B2
That wait the welcome halloo of 'come mull '	-
And rumbling waggons deafening again	X
Rousing the dust along the narrow lane	W
And cracking whips and shepherd's hooting cries	P
From woodland echoes urging sharp replies	P
Hodge in his waggon marks the wondrous tongue	C2
And talks with echo as he drives along	D2
Still cracks his whip bawls every horse's name	E2
And echo still as ready bawls the same	E2
The puzzling mystery he would gladly cheat	Y
And fain would utter what it can't repeat	Y
Till speedless trials prove the doubted elf	F2
As skilled in noise and sounds as Hodge himself	F2
And quite convinced with the proofs it gives	P
The boy drives on and fancies echo lives	P
Like some wood fiend that frights benighted men	X
The troubling spirit of a robber's den	X
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And now the blossom of the village view	C
With airy hat of straw and apron blue	C
And short sleeved gown that half to guess reveals	P
By fine turned arms what beauty it conceals	P
Whose cheeks health flushes with as sweet a red	G2
As that which stripes the woodbine oer her head	G2
Deeply she blushes on her morn's employ	H2
To prove the fondness of some passing boy	H2
Who with a smile that thrills her soul to view	C
Holds the gate open till she passes through	C
While turning nods beck thanks for kindness done	I2
And looks if looks could speak proclaim her won	I2
With well scoured buckets on proceeds the maid	J2
And drives her cows to milk beneath the shade	J2
Where scarce a sunbeam to molest her steals	P
Sweet as the thyme that blossoms where she kneels	P
And there oft scares the cooing amorous dove	K2
With her own favoured melodies of love	K2
Snugly retired in yet dew laden bowers	P
This sweetest specimen of rural flowers	P
Displays red glowing in the morning wind	L2
The powers of health and nature when combined	L2
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Last on the road the cowboy careless swings	P
Leading tamed cattle in their tending strings	P
With shining tin to keep his dinner warm	M2
Swung at his back or tucked beneath his arm	N2
Whose sun burnt skin and cheeks chuffed out with fat	O2
Are dyed as rusty as his napless hat	O2
And others driving loose their herds at will	P2
Are now heard whooping up the pasture hill	P2
Peeled sticks they bear of hazel or of ash	Q2
The rib marked hides of restless cows to thrash	Q2
In sloven garb appears each bawling boy	H2
As fit and suiting to his rude employ	H2
His shoes worn down by many blundering treads	P
Oft show the tenants needing safer sheds	P
The pithy bunch of unripe nuts to seek	R2
And crabs sun reddened with a tempting cheek	R2
From pasture hedges daily puts to rack	S2
His tattered clothes that scarcely screen the back	S2
Daubed all about as if besmeared with blood	T2
Stained with the berries of the brambly wood	U2
That stud the straggling briars as black as jet	V2
Which when his cattle lair he runs to get	V2
Or smaller kinds as if beglossed with dew	C
Shining dim powdered with a downy blue	C
That on weak tendrils lowly creeping grow	F
Where choaked in flags and sedges wandering slow	F
The brook purls simmering its declining tide	E
Down the crooked boundings of the pasture side	E
There they to hunt the luscious fruit delight	W2
And dabbling keep within their charges' sight	W2
Oft catching prickly struttles on their rout	N
And miller thumbs and gudgeons driving out	N
Hid near the arched brig under many a stone	X2
That from its wall rude passing clowns have thrown	X2
And while in peace cows eat and chew their cuds	P
Moozing cool sheltered neath the skirting woods	P
To double uses they the hours convert	Y2
Turning the toils of labour into sport	Z2
Till morn's long streaking shadows lose their tails	P
And cooling winds swoon into faultering gales	P
And searching sunbeams warm and sultry creep	Z
Waking the teazing insects from their sleep	Z
And dreaded gadflies with their drowsy hum	A3
On the burnt wings of mid day zephyrs come	A3
Urging each lown to leave his sports in fear	F
To stop his starting cows that dread the fly	U
Droning unwelcome tidings on his ear	F
That the sweet peace of rural morn's gone by	U

John Clare

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