<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=38079" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Song of the Country</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away from the roar and the rattle,<br> The dust and the din of the town,<br>Where to live is to brawl and to battle,<br> Till the strong treads the weak man down!<br>Away to the bonnie green hills<br> Where the sunshine sleeps on the brae,<br>And the heart of the greenwood thrills<br> To the hymn of the bird on the spray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away from the smoke and the smother,<br> The veil of the dun and the brown,<br>The push and the plash and the pother,<br> The wear and the waste of the town!<br>Away where the sky shines clear,<br> And the light breeze wanders at will,<br>And the dark pine-wood nods near<br> To the light-plumed birch on the hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away from the whirling and wheeling,<br> And steaming above and below,<br>Where the heart has no leisure for feeling<br> And the thought has no quiet to grow.<br>Away where the clear brook purls,<br> And the hyacinth droops in the shade,<br>And the plume of the fern uncurls<br> Its grace in the depth of the glade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away to the cottage so sweetly<br> Embowered 'neath the fringe of the wood,<br>Where the wife of my bosom shall meet me<br> With thoughts ever kindly and good;<br>More dear than the wealth of the world,<br> Fond mother with bairnies three,<br>And the plump-armed babe that has curled<br> Its lips sweetly pouting for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then away from the roar and the rattle<br> The dust and the din of the town,<br>Where to live is to brawl and to battle<br> Till the strong treads the weak man down.<br>Away where the green twigs nod<br> In the fragrant breath of the May,<br>And the sweet growth spreads on the sod,<br> And the blithe birds sing on the spray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Stuart+Blackie">John Stuart Blackie</a> from <i>Littell's Living Age, vol. 129</i><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=38079" data-title="A Song of the Country de John Stuart Blackie" data-description="Away from the roar and the rattle,/ The dust and the din of the town,/Where to live is to brawl and to battle,/ Till the strong treads the weak man down!/Away to the bonnie green hills/ Where the sunshine sleeps on the brae,/And the heart of the g..."></div> </div> </div>

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