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The snow is gone from cottage tops	A
The thatch moss glows in brighter green	B
And eves in quick succession drops	A
Where grinning ides once hath been	C
Pit patting Wi a pleasant noise	D
In tubs set by the cottage door	E
And ducks and geese wi happy joys	D
Douse in the yard pond brimming oer	E
	-
The sun peeps thro the window pane	F
Which childern mark wi laughing eye	G
And in the wet street steal again	H
To tell each other spring is nigh	G
And as young hope the past recalls	I
In playing groups will often draw	E
Building beside the sunny walls	I
Their spring play huts of sticks or straw	E
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And oft in pleasures dreams they hie	J
Round homsteads by the village side	K
Scratting the hedgrow mosses bye	G
Where painted pooty shells abide	K
Mistaking oft the ivy spray	E
For leaves that come wi budding spring	L
And wondering in their search for play	E
Why birds delay to build and sing	L
	-
The milkmaid singing leaves her bed	M
As glad as happy thoughts can be	N
While magpies chatter oer her head	M
As jocund in the change as she	N
Her cows around the closes stray	E
Nor lingering wait the foddering boy	O
Tossing the molehills in their play	E
And staring round in frolic joy	O
	-
Ploughmen go whistling to their toils	P
And yoke again the rested plough	Q
And mingling oer the mellow soils	P
Boys' shouts and whips are noising now	Q
	-
The shepherd now is often seen	B
By warm banks oer his work to bend	R
Or oer a gate or stile to lean	B
Chattering to a passing friend	R
	-
Odd hive bees fancying winter oer	E
And dreaming in their combs of spring	L
Creeps on the slab beside their door	E
And strokes its legs upon its wing	L
While wild ones half asleep are humming	L
Round snowdrop bells a feeble note	S
And pigions coo of summer coming	L
Picking their feathers on the cote	S
	-
The barking dogs by lane and wood	T
Drive sheep afield from foddering ground	U
And eccho in her summer mood	V
Briskly mocks the cheery sound	U
The flocks as from a prison broke	W
Shake their wet fleeces in the sun	X
While following fast a misty smoke	W
Reeks from the moist grass as they run	X
	-
Nor more behind his masters heels	Y
The dog creeps oer his winter pace	Z
But cocks his tail and oer the fields	A2
Runs many a wild and random chase	Z
Following in spite of chiding calls	I
The startld cat wi harmless glee	N
Scaring her up the weed green walls	I
Or mossy mottld apple tree	N
	-
As crows from morning perches flye	G
He barks and follows them in vain	F
Een larks will catch his nimble eye	G
And off he starts and barks again	H
Wi breathless haste and blinded guess	B2
Oft following where the hare hath gone	C2
Forgetting in his joys excess	B2
His frolic puppy days are done	X
	-
The gossips saunter in the sun	X
As at the spring from door to door	E
Of matters in the village done	X
And secret newsings mutterd oer	E
Young girls when they each other meet	D2
Will stand their tales of love to tell	E2
While going on errands down the street	D2
Or fetching water from the well	E2
	-
A calm of pleasure listens round	U
And almost whispers winter bye	G
While fancy dreams of summer sounds	F2
And quiet rapture fills the eye	G
The sun beams on the hedges lye	G
The south wind murmurs summer soft	G2
And maids hang out white cloaths to dry	G
Around the eldern skirted croft	H2
	-
Each barns green thatch reeks in the sun	X
Its mate the happy sparrow calls	I
And as nest building spring begun	X
Peeps in the holes about the walls	I
	-
The wren a sunny side the stack	I2
Wi short tail ever on the strunt	H2
Cockd gadding up above his back	I2
Again for dancing gnats will hunt	H2
	-
The gladdend swine bolt from the sty	H2
And round the yard in freedom run	X
Or stretching in their slumbers lye	H2
Beside the cottage in the sun	X
The young horse whinneys to its mate	H2
And sickens from the threshers door	E
Rubbing the straw yards banded gate	H2
Longing for freedom on the moor	E
	-
Hens leave their roosts wi cackling calls	I
To see the barn door free from snow	J2
And cocks flye up the mossy walls	I
To clap their spangld wings and crow	J2
About the steeples sunny top	K2
The jackdaw flocks resemble spring	L
And in the stone archd windows pop	K2
Wi summer noise and wanton wing	L
	-
The small birds think their wants are oer	J2
To see the snow hills fret again	H
And from the barns chaff litterd door	J2
Betake them to the greening plain	F
The woodmans robin startles coy	O
Nor longer at his elbow comes	L2
To peck wi hungers eager joy	O
Mong mossy stulps the litterd crumbs	L2
	-
Neath hedge and walls that screen the wind	H2
The gnats for play will Hock together	J2
And een poor flyes odd hopes will find	H2
To venture in the mocking weather	J2
From out their hiding holes again	H
Wi feeble pace they often creep	M2
Along the sun warmd window pane	F
Like dreaming things that walk in sleep	M2
	-
The mavis thrush wi wild delight	H2
Upon the orchards dripping tree	J2
Mutters to see the day so bright	H2
Spring scraps of young hopes poesy	L2
And oft dame stops her burring wheel	N2
To hear the robins note once more	J2
That tutles while he pecks his meal	N2
From sweet briar hips beside the door	J2
	-
The hedghog from its hollow root	H2
Sees the wood moss clear of snow	J2
And hunts each hedge for fallen fruit	H2
Crab hip and winter bitten sloe	J2
And oft when checkd by sudden fears	L2
As shepherd dog his haunt espies	L2
He rolls up in a ball of spears	L2
And all his barking rage defies	L2
	-
Thus nature of the spring will dream	O2
While south winds thaw but soon again	H
Frost breaths upon the stiffening stream	O2
And numbs it into ice the plain	F
	-
Soon wears its merry garb of white	H2
And icicles that fret at noon	P2
Will eke their icy tails at night	H2
Beneath the chilly stars and moon	P2
	-
Nature soon sickens of her joys	L2
And all is sad and dumb again	H
Save merry shouts of sliding boys	L2
About the frozen furrowd plain	F
The foddering boy forgets his song	Q2
And silent goes wi folded arms	L2
And croodling shepherds bend along	Q2
Crouching to the whizzing storms	L2

John Clare

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