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On Sunday mornings freed from hard employ	A
How oft I mark the mischievous young boy	A
With anxious haste his pole and lines provide	B
For make shifts oft crook'd pins to thread were tied	B
And delve his knife with wishes ever warm	C
In rotten dunghills for the grub and worm	D
The harmless treachery of his hooks to bait	E
Tracking the dewy grass with many a mate	E
To seek the brook that down the meadows glides	F
Where the grey willow shadows by its sides	F
Where flag and reed in wild disorder spread	G
And bending bulrush bows its taper head	G
And just above the surface of the floods	H
Where water lilies mount their snowy buds	H
On whose broad swimming leaves of glossy green	I
The shining dragon fly is often seen	I
Where hanging thorns with roots wash'd bare appear	J
That shield the moor hen's nest from year to year	J
While crowding osiers mingling wild among	K
Prove snug asylums to her brood when young	K
Who when surpris'd by foes approaching near	J
Plunge 'neath the weeping bough and disappear	J
There far from terrors that the parson brings	L
Or church bell hearing when its summons rings	L
Half hid in meadow sweet and keck's high flowers	M
In lonely sport they spend the Sunday hours	M
Though ill supplied for fishing seems the brook	N
That breaks the mead in many a stinted crook	N
Oft choak'd in weeds and foil'd to find a road	O
The choice retirement of the snake and toad	O
Then lost in shallows dimpling restlessly	P
In fluttering struggles murmuring to be free	P
O'er gravel stones its depth can scarcely hide	B
It runs the remnant of its broken tide	B
Till seemly weary of each choak'd control	Q
It rests collected in some gulled hole	Q
Scoop'd by the sudden floods when winter's snow	R
Melts in confusion by a hasty thaw	S
There bent in hopeful musings on the brink	T
They watch their floating corks that seldom sink	T
Save when a wary roach or silver bream	U
Nibbles the worm as passing up the stream	U
Just urging expectation's hopes to stay	V
To view the dodging cork then slink away	V
Still hopes keep burning with untir'd delight	W
Still wobbling curves keep wavering like a bite	W
If but the breezy wind their floats should spring	X
And move the water with a troubling ring	X
A captive fish still fills the anxious eyes	Y
And willow wicks lie ready for the prize	Y
Till evening gales awaken damp and chill	Z
And nip the hopes that morning suns instil	Z
And resting flies have tired their gauzy wing	X
Nor longer tempt the watching fish to spring	X
Who at the worm no nibbles more repeat	A2
But lunge from night in sheltering flag retreat	A2
Then disappointed in their day's employ	Z
They seek amusement in a feebler joy	Z
Short is the sigh for fancies prov'd untrue	B2
With humbler hopes still pleasure they pursue	B2
Where the rude oak bridge scales the narrow pass	C2
Half hid in rustling reeds and scrambling grass	C2
Or stepping stones stride o'er the narrow sloughs	D2
Which maidens daily cross to milk their cows	E2
There they in artless glee for minnows run	F2
And wade and dabble past the setting sun	F2
Chasing the struttle o'er the shallow tide	B
And flat stones turning up where gudgeons hide	B
All former hopes their ill success delay'd	G2
In this new change they fancy well repaid	G2
And thus they wade and chatter o'er their joys	H2
Till night unlook'd for young success destroys	H2
Drives home the sons of solitude and streams	I2
And stops uncloy'd hope's ever fresh'ning dreams	I2
They then like school boys that at truant play	Z
In sloomy fear lounge on their homeward way	Z
And inly tremble as they gain the town	J2
Where chastisement awaits with many a frown	J2
And hazel twigs in readiness prepar'd	K2
For their long absence bring a meet reward	L2

John Clare

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