“The schoolboys still their morning rambles take
To neighboring village school with playing speed
Loitering with pastimes leisure till they quake
Oft looking up the wild geese droves to heed
Watching the letters which their journeys make.”—John Clare (1763-1864), “Schoolboys in Winter,” in The Portable Romantic Poets, edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (1950)
To neighboring village school with playing speed
Loitering with pastimes leisure till they quake
Oft looking up the wild geese droves to heed
Watching the letters which their journeys make.”—John Clare (1763-1864), “Schoolboys in Winter,” in The Portable Romantic Poets, edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (1950)
