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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Applegarth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a garden where the sun<br>reflects from rough cast whitewashed walls.<br>Close by the quiet river runs<br>here you can hear the soft bird calls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scents of lavender and sage, <br>which grow near to the lilac trees.<br>Compete with fields of blue borage<br>ich draw to them the questing bees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lawn of moorland turf is neat<br>and everywhere the flowers bloom.<br>The honey smell of meadowsweet<br>is mingling with the perfumed broom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This garden is a sheltered spot.<br>Where old and tired from the fray<br>I sit and doze when it is hot<br>and ponder in my quiet way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think about the things I’ve seen<br>and well loved people I have known<br>The many places I have been<br>in travels ‘fore I was full grown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My wandering feet have carried me<br>to distant lands of snow and ice.<br>Some lands without a single tree<br>and tropic isles like paradise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I always yearned to go back home<br>but there was always more to see<br>When I was young I had to roam<br>across the world by land and sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My questing mind gave me no peace<br>hard lessons I was forced to learn.<br>Wisdom granted me release<br>a truth I found I had to earn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fire of youth burns low with age.<br>springy step turns to measured tread<br>I learnt my quest was a mirage<br>and came back to where I was bred</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although it’s changed it’s still the same.<br>I see it now through different eyes<br>and seek no more for fortunes fame.<br>I realise to my surprise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I need not have travelled at all.<br>As all the knowledge I’ve obtained<br>I could have gained within ths walls<br>of this small garden.Now maintained</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by younger men in their full strength.<br>Who serve me with touching awe<br>As one who’s seen the breadth and length<br>Of the whole world.As he sought for</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>the secrets other lands could show.<br>Whose been to Canada and Rome.<br>Seen desert lands and fields of snow<br>But has returned at last to home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A field stone house with roof of thatch, <br>a garden sheltered from the wind.<br>There was nowhere else could match<br>the dream he carried in his mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of Applegarth, old Applegarth<br>a house that’s filled with memories<br>It’s been his family’s home and hearth<br>for nigh on seven hundred years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s little left of the wide lands<br>This proud family used to own<br>but what there is Is my homeland.<br>belongs to me and me alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This quiet garden in the sun<br>the Rowan tree that provides shade.<br>I know my race is nearly run<br>and wonder if I made the grade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each morn I wake and greet the day.<br>Determined that I will enjoy<br>Whatever treats may come my way<br>As carefree as a little boy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little boy I used to be<br>Before my wanderlust took hold<br>and drove me overland and sea.<br>I only learned as I grew old</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That I could live contentedly<br>at Applegarth and only here.<br>Where I was always meant to be <br>a message I was slow to hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q>
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Close by the quiet river runs
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The scents of lavender and sage, 
which grow near to the lilac trees.
Compete with fields of blue bor..."></div>
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