 John Clare , the nineteenth @-@ century English poet based in Northamptonshire , wrote " The Landrail " , a semi @-@ comic piece which is primarily about the difficulty of seeing corn crakes – as opposed to hearing them . In the fourth verse he exclaims : " Tis like a fancy everywhere / A sort of living doubt " . Clare wrote about corn crakes in his prose works too , and his writings help to clarify the distribution of this rail when it was far more widespread than now . 
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John Clare , the nineteenth @-@ century English poet based in Northamptonshire , wrote " The Landrail " , a semi @-@ comic piece which primarily abt the difficulty of seein corn crakes – as opposed to hearing em . In da fourth verse he exclaim : " Tis like a fancy everywhere / A sort of livin doubt " . Clare wrote ababtorn crakes in his prose wrk too , and his writings help to clarify the distribution of this rail when it was far more widespread den now .