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  • While snow the window-panes bedim,
    The fire curls up a sunny charm,
    Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim,
    The flowering ale is set to warm;
    Mirth, full of joy as summer bees,
    Sits there, its pleasures to impart,
    And children, 'tween their parent's knees,
    Sing scraps of carols o'er by heart.

    John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.482, Delphi Classics