<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354942" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shifting Sand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you see that post a-stickin in the sand?<br>Just the point of it a-poking thro' the sand?<br> Me and Madge put in that fence.<br> Yes! We should have had more sense!<br>We was young, you see, and didn't understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty years come next November we began;<br>There was nothing here but scrub when we began --<br> Sold the farm on 'Dingo Flat,'<br> And put all we had in that!<br>Into blasted shifting sand and 'Take-all pan.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This here paddick--which? Why where you're standing now<br>(Oh! it was one, tho' you wouldn't think so now!)<br> Well, we grubbed it, nice and neat,<br> And we gut it in with wheat;<br>And we didn't reap enough to feed the cow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the early spring the sand began to shift ---<br>In a 'Norther' have you ever seen it shift?<br> Well, it all went in a night,<br> Not a blade was left in sight<br>When we come to look next morning at the drift!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Round the back there, by them stunted pepper-trees;<br>Hardly anything will live here but them trees.<br> Madge is lying there, asleep,<br> With the sand above her, deep:<br>Deep and loose enough to sink you to the knees!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many other things are buried on the land,<br>Things you can't get back from any kind of land,<br> Youth and hope, and tears and sweat,<br> Wasted work and vain regret,<br>In the sneaking, creeping, greedy, shifting sand!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Henry+Souter">Charles Henry Souter</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=354942" data-title="Shifting Sand de Charles Henry Souter" data-description="Do you see that post a-stickin in the sand? Just the point of it a-poking thro' the sand? Me and Madge put in that fence. Yes! We should have had more sense! We was young, you see, and didn't understand. Twenty years come next November we began..."></div> </div> </div>

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