<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355251" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lately an equipage I overtook,<br>And helped to lift it o'er a narrow brook.<br>No horse it had except one boy, who drew<br>His sister out in it the fields to view.<br>O happy town-bred girl, in fine chaise going<br>For the first time to see the green grass growing.<br>This was the end and purport of the ride<br>I learned, as walking slowly by their side<br>I heard their conversation. Often she-<br>'Brother, is this the country that I see?'<br>The bricks were smoking, and the ground was broke,<br>There were no signs of verdure when she spoke.<br>He, as the well-informed delight in chiding<br>The ignorant, these questions still deriding,<br>To his good judgment modestly she yields;<br>Till, brick-kilns past, they reached the open fields.<br>Then, as with rapturous wonder round she gazes<br>On the green grass, the buttercups, and daisies,<br>'This is the country sure enough,' she cries;<br>'Is't not a charming place?' The boy replies,<br>'We'll go no further.' 'No,' says she, 'no need;<br>'No finer place than this can be indeed.'<br>I left them gathering flowers, the happiest pair<br>That ever London sent to breathe the fine fresh air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</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=355251" data-title="The Ride de Charles Lamb" data-description="Lately an equipage I overtook, And helped to lift it o'er a narrow brook. No horse it had except one boy, who drew His sister out in it the fields to view. O happy town-bred girl, in fine chaise going For the first time to see the green grass grow..."></div> </div> </div>

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