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LOOKING FOR MY FATHER: CHRISTOPHER SMART, JOHN CLARE
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13 LOOKING FOR MY FATHER: CHRISTOPHER SMART, JOHN CLARE For in Your beauty I stray for nature Working the fields beneath Sporadic flights of titmice As tractors swale, card the greenish sheaves. Thus, I pray, you who have made me Tear me down again like the field That I may spring up empty of weeds, Hay-rake scavenged for what parts Remain good in me. I labor and prong the past Into life once more, setting The true mice to flee. ...