Young Lamb

I met H at Felbrigg this morning for a walk. The weather was dull and cool. Not much to see Nature wise, until we got to the final field where all the sheep and lambs were. This afternoon I cleared three windowsills and did some cleaning before I get a quote tomorrow for some new blinds. 

Young Lambs by John Clare
The spring is coming by a many signs;
The trays are up, the hedges broken down,
That fenced the haystack, and the remnant shines
Like some old antique fragment weathered brown.
And where suns peep, in every sheltered place,
The little early buttercups unfold
A glittering star or two--till many trace
The edges of the blackthorn clumps in gold.
And then a little lamb bolts up behind
The hill and wags his tail to meet the yoe,
And then another, sheltered from the wind,
Lies all his length as dead--and lets me go
Close bye and never stirs but baking lies,
With legs stretched out as though he could not rise.