Sonnet # 156 Poem by John A. Hancock

I left to muse amongst the love's of Clare
To the Goddess homage pay
For I stray'd from the path of knowledge
And Sought again her enlighten ways
My senses drank deeply nature's mead
Ere sitting to bask upon the shore
There listen'd to the sounds of summer
I for an old foe traded for
The bubbling brook bade me hello
Serenity whisper'd welcome in a breeze
As nature forgave her lover returned
Humbled beneath the woodland trees
A fool was I to sail again addiction's seas
And think that periless these waters be