...nay, rather, stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator...untroubled where I lie, The grass below, above, the vaulted sky."4 (PP. 221-2) The feeling of tiredness and tearfulness is clear in the following extract from...

...nay, they are stranger than the rest. I long for scenes, where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God; And sleep as I in childhood, sweetly slept, Full of high thoughts, unborn. So let me lie, The grass below; above, the vaulted sky. John Clare Written...

...nay, rather stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where man has never trod, A place where woman never smiled or wept; There to abide with my Creator,...where I lie, The grass below - above the vaulted sky. John Clare 1793-1864 I am 20. There is a time of weeping and there is time laughing. But as you see,...

...stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where man hath never trod, A place where woman never smilea nor wept, There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep...I lie, The grass below — above, the vaulted sky. — JOHN CLARE ke's illness showed up when he was fourteen, smackdab in Erikson's "competency" stage,...

...they are stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where man has never trod — For scenes where woman never smiled or wept — There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Full of high thoughts, unborn. So let me lie, — The grass below; above, the vaulted sky. Secret Love...

...nay, rather stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smiled or wept; There to abide with my Creator,...I lie; The grass below — above the vaulted sky. There is much speculation by Clare scholars as to the root cause of Clare's mental illness. They have...