John Clare (1793–1864) English poet
The Shepherd's Calendar: "July" (second version) http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/clare/july2.html <br class="br">Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r
The moping owl does to the moon complain.”
St. 3 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
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