<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If I were to Own</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">f I were to own this countryside<br>As far as a man in a day could ride,<br>And the Tyes were mine for giving or letting, -<br>Wingle Tye and Margaretting<br>Tye, - and Skreens, Gooshays, and Cockerells,<br>Shellow, Rochetts, Bandish, and Pickerells,<br>Martins, Lambkins, and Lillyputs,<br>Their copses, ponds, roads, and ruts,<br>Fields where plough-horses steam and plovers<br>Fling and whimper, hedges that lovers<br>Love, and orchards, shrubberies, walls<br>Where the sun untroubled by north wind falls,<br>And single trees where the thrush sings well<br>His proverbs untranslatable,<br>I would give them all to my son<br>If he would let me any one<br>For a song, a blackbird's song, at dawn.<br>He should have no more, till on my lawn<br>Never a one was left, because I<br>Had shot them to put them into a pie, -<br>His Essex blackbirds, every one,<br>And I was left old and alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then unless I could pay, for rent, a song<br>As sweet as a blackbird's, and as long -<br>No more - he should have the house, not I<br>Margaretting or Wingle Tye,<br>Or it might be Skreens, Gooshays, or Cockerells,<br>Shellow, Rochetts, Bandish, or Pickerells,<br>Martins, Lambkins, or Lillyputs,<br>Should be his till the cart tracks had no ruts.</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=381218" data-title="If I were to Own de Edward Thomas" data-description="f I were to own this countryside As far as a man in a day could ride, And the Tyes were mine for giving or letting, - Wingle Tye and Margaretting Tye, - and Skreens, Gooshays, and Cockerells, Shellow, Rochetts, Bandish, and Pickerells, Martins, La..."></div> </div> </div>

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