<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381216" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Never Saw that Land Before</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never saw that land before,<br>And now can never see it again;<br>Yet, as if by acquaintance hoar<br>Endeared, by gladness and by pain,<br>Great was the affection that I bore</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the valley and the river small,<br>The cattle, the grass, the bare ash trees,<br>The chickens from the farmsteads, all<br>Elm-hidden, and the tributaries<br>Descending at equal interval;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blackthorns down along the brook<br>With wounds yellow as crocuses<br>Where yesterday the labourer's hook<br>Had sliced them cleanly; and the breeze<br>That hinted all and nothing spoke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I neither expected anything<br>Nor yet remembered: but some goal<br>I touched then; and if I could sing<br>What would not even whisper my soul<br>As I went on my journeying,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I should use, as the trees and birds did,<br>A language not to be betrayed;<br>And what was hid should still be hid<br>Excepting from those like me made<br>Who answer when such whispers bid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Thomas">Edward Thomas</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=381216" data-title="I Never Saw that Land Before de Edward Thomas" data-description="I never saw that land before, And now can never see it again; Yet, as if by acquaintance hoar Endeared, by gladness and by pain, Great was the affection that I bore To the valley and the river small, The cattle, the grass, the bare ash trees, The..."></div> </div> </div>

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