"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

01 October 2022

Please.

Aldridge, Besslyn’s Pond, Great Bardfield, 1950


The wild wood music from the lonely dell,
Where merry Gipseys o'er their raptures dwell,
Haunting each common's wild and lonely nook,
Where hedges run as crooked as the brook,

Shielding their camps beneath some spreading oak,
And but discovered by the curling smoke
Puffing, and peeping up, as wills the breeze,
Between the branches of the coloured trees: —
Such are the pictures that October yields,
To please the poet as he walks the fields ...

John Clare, from "October"

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