The Completion of an Unfinished Quatrain by John Clare

[Alan Sondheim]

The Completion of an Unfinished Quatrain by John Clare


My heart my dear Mary from thee cannot part

But the sweetest of pleasure that joy can impart
Is sought to the memory of thee


(John Clare: The Living Year 1841, edited by John Tilcott)


My heart my dear Mary from thee cannot part
True emerald roundtable and bee
But the sweetest of pleasure that joy can impart
Is sought to the memory of thee



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