<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568387" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Parker Clare</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To a forgotten culture perhaps he now belongs<br>The man who could sing over a thousand songs<br>The father of the famous poet John Clare<br>Even in his own time people like him were rare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ballad singer of the Helpston countryside<br>Hundreds of the old songs he sung with him died<br>So little of the oral tradition now remain<br>Forever lost not to be found again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two hundred years ago one of a dying breed<br>Poor Parker Clare he could not write nor read<br>Yet through his son his name lives on today<br>A memory lost but yet to fade away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He came from an oral tradition that is forever gone<br>Yet memories of what was still living on<br>And at a time when great change was happening in his English countryside<br>Most of the songs he sung with Parker died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fading memory that won't fade away<br>And through his son his name still lives today<br>Still a genius in his own right the thresher Parker Clare<br>And even in his time his type were quite rare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568387" data-title="Parker Clare de Francis Duggan" data-description="To a forgotten culture perhaps he now belongs The man who could sing over a thousand songs The father of the famous poet John Clare Even in his own time people like him were rare. The ballad singer of the Helpston countryside Hundreds of the old ..."></div> </div> </div>

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