23 AUGUST 1924, Page 15

POETRY.

AN UNPUBLISHED POEM BY JOHN CLARE.

RELEASE.

Tim sheds are cleaned and littered down before The drapsipg cow comes from the weary moor ; Upon the hovel-beams the fowl perch high ; Around the cribs the straw-fed oxen lye. The gears are hung behind the stable thack ; The teams at rest are pulling at the rack. The hedger in the ditch has hid his tool Under a stumpy thorn—and from the school Boys homeward wend and leap and splash in play Through all the little pudges on the way.