<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373845" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jonathan Houghton</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is the caw of a crow,<br>And the hesitant song of a thrush.<br>There is the tinkle of a cowbell far away,<br>And the voice of a plowman on Shipley's hill.<br>The forest beyond the orchard is still<br>With midsummer stillness;<br>And along the road a wagon chuckles,<br>Loaded with corn, going to Atterbury.<br>And an old man sits under a tree asleep,<br>And an old woman crosses the road,<br>Coming from the orchard with a bucket of blackberries.<br>And a boy lies in the grass<br>Near the feet of the old man,<br>And looks up at the sailing clouds,<br>And longs, and longs, and longs<br>For what, he knows not:<br>For manhood, for life, for the unknown world!<br>Then thirty years passed,<br>And the boy returned worn out by life<br>And found the orchard vanished,<br>And the forest gone,<br>And the house made over,<br>And the roadway filled with dust from automobiles --<br>And himself desiring The Hill!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373845" data-title="Jonathan Houghton de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="There is the caw of a crow, And the hesitant song of a thrush. There is the tinkle of a cowbell far away, And the voice of a plowman on Shipley's hill. The forest beyond the orchard is still With midsummer stillness; And along the road a wagon chu..."></div> </div> </div>

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