<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390587" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>So Much That I Could Learn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If only the aged trees could speak, <br>What tales they might have to recite.<br>This giant oak has stood for years, <br>Having grown to a massive height.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as the decades have done their time, <br>So many things they must have seen, <br>As the centuries of human life, <br>Have passed across this Village Green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smart gentry and also tired labourers, <br>Staunch farmers and shy parlourmaids.<br>Coy lovers in their starry-eyed loitering, <br>Sly poachers intent on their trades.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nannies with their precious charges<br>Out for a long summer stroll.<br>Travellers trudging through the snow<br>To reach their eventual goal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the era of impressive aeroplanes<br>Bravely cruising the limitless skies.<br>The motor cars and the charabancs, <br>Each one a mechanical prize.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wars, battles and bombs have come and gone, <br>Generations have passed away.<br>But still the stalwart trunk stands firm, <br>To observe yet another day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If only the aged trees could speak, <br>I would answer them in return.<br>I’d sit ‘neath their branches, lost in awe.<br>Oh, there’s so much that I could learn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernestine+Northover">Ernestine Northover</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=390587" data-title="So Much That I Could Learn de Ernestine Northover" data-description="If only the aged trees could speak, What tales they might have to recite. This giant oak has stood for years, Having grown to a massive height. And as the decades have done their time, So many things they must have seen, As the centuries of h..."></div> </div> </div>

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