Many will now have at least seen Anne Lee's wonderful little book which contains the first half of the 1921 (Village Minstrel) poem 'Solitude', few however, will know the second half of that poem - A different work entirely in my opinion - so over the next little while I shall post it here. Dark and gothic, it uses Peterborough Cathedral as its binding motive. However, Clare's political opinions surface time and time again. The version I will be posting will be that I transcribed from Clare's manuscript, not the version Taylor and Hessey published.
But as sorrows more opress
But as sorrows more opress
As the world does more
distress
Yielding as misfortunes lower
Dulging mellancholys hour
Wishing to despise as then
Brunts of fate & scorn of men
When fates demons thus intrude
Then I seek thee solitude
Where the abbys height appears
Yielding as misfortunes lower
Dulging mellancholys hour
Wishing to despise as then
Brunts of fate & scorn of men
When fates demons thus intrude
Then I seek thee solitude
Where the abbys height appears
Hoary neath a weight of
years
Where the mouldering walls are seen
Hung wi pelitorry green
Where the steeples taper stretch
Tries the eye its length to reach
Where the mouldering walls are seen
Hung wi pelitorry green
Where the steeples taper stretch
Tries the eye its length to reach
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