<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355124" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Delectable Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boy on the famous gray pony,<br>Just bidding good-bye at the door,<br>Plucking up maiden heart for the fences<br>Where his brother won honour of yore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The walk to 'the Meet' with fair children,<br>And women as gentle as gay,-<br>Ah! how do we male hogs in armour<br>Deserve such companions as they?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The afternoon's wander to windward,<br>To meet the dear boy coming back;<br>And to catch, down the turns of the valley,<br>The last weary chime of the pack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The climb homeward by park and by moorland,<br>And through the fir forests again,<br>While the south-west wind roars in the gloaming,<br>Like an ocean of seething champagne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And at night the septette of Beethoven,<br>And the grandmother by in her chair,<br>And the foot of all feet on the sofa<br>Beating delicate time to the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, God! a poor soul can but thank Thee<br>For such a delectable day!<br>Though the fury, the fool, and the swindler,<br>To-morrow again have their way!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Eversley, 6th November 1872.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</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=355124" data-title="The Delectable Day de Charles Kingsley" data-description="The boy on the famous gray pony, Just bidding good-bye at the door, Plucking up maiden heart for the fences Where his brother won honour of yore. The walk to 'the Meet' with fair children, And women as gentle as gay,- Ah! how do we male hogs in a..."></div> </div> </div>

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