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'T is pleasant to bear recollections in mind	A
Of joys that time hurries away	B
To look back on smiles that have passed like the wind	A
And compare them with frowns of to day	B
'T was the constant delight of Old Robin forsooth	C
On the past with clear vision to dwell	D
To recount the fond loves and the raptures of youth	C
And tales of lost pleasures to tell	D
	-
'T is now many years like a child he would say	B
Since I joined in the sports of the green	E
Since I tied up the flowers for the garland of May	B
And danced with the holiday queen	E
My memory looks backward in sorrowful pride	F
And I think till my eyes dim with tears	G
Of the past where my happiness withered and died	F
And the present dull desolate years	H
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I love to be counting while sitting alone	I
With many a heart aching sigh	J
How many a season has rapidly flown	I
And springs with their summers gone by	J
Since Susan the pride of the village was deemed	K
To whom youth's affections I gave	L
Whom I led to the church and beloved and esteemed	K
And followed in grief to the grave	L
	-
Life's changes for many hours musings supply	J
Both the past and the present appear	M
I mark how the years that remain hurry by	J
And feel that my last must be near	M
The youths that with me to man's summer did bloom	N
Have dwindled away to old men	O
And maidens like flowers of the Spring have made room	N
For many new blossoms since then	O
	-
I have lived to see all but life's sorrows pass by	J
Leaving changes and pains and decay	B
Where nought is the same but the wide spreading sky	J
And the sun that awakens the day	B
The green where I tended my sheep when a boy	P
Has yielded its pride to the plough	Q
And the shades where my infancy revelled in joy	P
The axe has left desolate now	Q
	-
Yet a bush lingers still that will urge me to stop	R
What heart can such fancies withstand	S
Where Susan once saw a bird's nest on the top	R
And I reached her the eggs with my hand	S
And so long since the day I remember so well	D
It has stretched to a sizable tree	T
And the birds yearly come in its branches to dwell	D
As far from a giant as me	T
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On a favourite spot by the side of a brook	U
When Susan was just in her pride	F
A ripe bunch of nuts from her apron she took	U
To plant as she sat by my side	F
They have grown up with years and on many a bough	Q
Cluster nuts like their parents agen	Q
Where shepherds no doubt have oft sought them ere now	Q
To please other Susans since then	Q
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The joys that I knew when my youth was in prime	V
Like a dream that's half ended are o'er	W
And the faces I knew in that changeable time	V
Are met with the living no more	X
I have lived to see friends that I loved pass away	B
With the pleasures their company gave	L
I have lived to see love with my Susan decay	B
And the grass growing green on her grave	L

John Clare

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