<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357253" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our House</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IT should be yours, if I could build <br>The quaint old dwelling I desire, <br>With books and pictures bravely filled <br>And chairs beside an open fire, <br>White-panelled rooms with candles lit- <br>I lie awake to think of it!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dial for the sunny hours, <br>A garden of old-fashioned flowers- <br>Say marigolds and lavender <br>And mignonette and fever-few, <br>And Judas-tree and maidenhair <br>And candytuft and thyme and rue- <br>All these for you to wander in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Chinese carp (called Mandarin) <br>Waving a sluggish silver fin <br>Deep in the moat: so tame he comes <br>To lip your fingers offering crumbs. <br>Tall chimneys, like long listening ears, <br>White shutters, ivy green and thick, <br>And walls of ruddy Tudor brick <br>Grown mellow with the passing years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And windows with small leaded panes, <br>Broad window-seats for when it rains; <br>A big blue bowl of pot pourri <br>And-yes, a Spanish chestnut tree <br>To coin the autumn's minted gold. <br>A summer house for drinking tea- <br>All these (just think!) for you and me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A staircase of the old black wood <br>Cut in the days of Robin Hood, <br>And banisters worn smooth as glass <br>Down which your hand will lightly pass; <br>A piano with pale yellow keys <br>For wistful twilight melodies, <br>And dusty bottles in a bin- <br>All these for you to revel in!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when? Ah well, until that time <br>We'll habit in this house of rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+Morley">Christopher Morley</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=357253" data-title="Our House de Christopher Morley" data-description="IT should be yours, if I could build The quaint old dwelling I desire, With books and pictures bravely filled And chairs beside an open fire, White-panelled rooms with candles lit- I lie awake to think of it! A dial for the sunny hours, A g..."></div> </div> </div>

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