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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOUSE'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a ball of grass among the hay
Last Line: And broad old cesspools glittered in the sun.
Subject(s): Mice
First Line: I found a ball of grass among the hay
Last Line: And broad old cesspools glittered in the sun.
Subject(s): Mice
I found a ball of grass among the hay
And progged it as I passed and went away;
And when I looked I fancied something stirred,
And turned agen, and hoped to catch the bird --
When out an old mouse bolted in the wheats
With all her young ones hanging at her teats;
She looked so odd and so grotesque to me,
I ran and wondered what the thing could be,
And pushed the knapweed bunches where I stood.
Then the mouse hurried from the craking brood,
The young ones squeaked, and as I went away,
She found her nest again among the hay.
The water o'er the pebbles scarce could run,
And broad old cesspools glittered in the sun.
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