A photo I took in the archive in November 2012... and this of another unpublished Clare manuscript. It is an honour to be able to go and study these texts -- and seek to decipher Clare's handwriting!
The book I love is everywhere,
And every place the same;
God bade me make my dwelling there,
And look for better fame.
I never feared the critic's pen,
To live by my renown;
I found the poems in the fields,
And only wrote them down.
(from "Sighing for Retirement)
(lines 9 to 16)
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