groundlark

By the smoky camp of my bonny lassie O! The groundlark singeth high o'er my bonny lassie O! The nightingale lives nigh my gipsy lassie O! They're with her all the year,

Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

By the smoky camp of my bonny lassie O! The groundlark singeth high o'er my bonny lassie O! The nightingale lives nigh my gipsy lassie O! They're with her all the year,

Life and Remains of John Clare Cherry, J L 1872

And the groundlark left his nest like a neighbour which I knew.

Poems Chiefly from Manuscript John Clare 1828