John Clare - Dyke Side lyrics

The frog croaks loud, and maidens dare not pa** But fear the noisome toad and shun the gra** And on the sunny banks they dare not go Where hissing snakes run to the flood below The nuthatch noises loud in wood and wild Like women turning skreeking to a child The schoolboy hears and brushes through the trees And runs about till drabbled to the knees The old hawk winnows round the old crow's nest The schoolboy hears and wonder fills his breast He throws his basket down to climb the tree And wonders what the red blotched eggs can be The green woodpecker bounces from the view And hollos as he buzzes bye "kew kew."