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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GIPSIES (1), by JOHN CLARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow falls deep; the forest lies alone
Last Line: A quiet, pilfering, unprotected race.
Variant Title(s): The Gipsy Camp;gypsies;the Gipsy Camp In Epping Forest
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies
First Line: The snow falls deep; the forest lies alone
Last Line: A quiet, pilfering, unprotected race.
Variant Title(s): The Gipsy Camp;gypsies;the Gipsy Camp In Epping Forest
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies
The snow falls deep; the forest lies alone;
The boy goes hasty for his load of brakes,
Then thinks upon the fire and hurries back;
The gipsy knocks his hands and tucks them up,
And seeks his squalid camp, half hid in snow,
Beneath the oak which breaks away the wind,
And bushes close in snow like hovel warm;
There tainted mutton wastes upon the coals,
And the half-wasted dog squats close and rubs,
Then feels the heat too strong and goes aloof;
He watches well, but none a bit can spare,
And vainly waits the morsel thrown away.
'Tis thus they live—a picture to the place,
A quiet, pilfering, unprotected race.
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