According to the LP sleeve notes, it is Royson Wood's setting of a a truncated John Clare poem - Wood removed 7 of the original 16 stanzas 'for the sake of comparative brevity'. The full text may be found in 'Clare' Eric Robinson and Geoffrey Summerfield (Eds), Oxford Uni Press [or so it says, but I can't find reference to said publication on the John Clare site which has links to many of his poems online - Click Here].

--Stewie.