<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416076" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>London West</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the Thames meanders gently through the green pasture<br>fields of Ingersoll, a pleasing picture to behold, how dif-<br>ferent, alas, is the feeling in London West, where the<br>river is an object of dread and terror, neither pleasing to<br>the eye or nostrils. As we have been living for the last<br>quarter of a century on the edge of one of the tributary<br>streams of the Thames and were once o'erwhelmed with<br>ruin dire by a number of the dams giving way, we can<br>sympathise with them. They are now built strong and<br>substantial, and the ponds are an ornament to the town,<br>as well as a source of wealth. The Caledonian Society,<br>of Ingersoll, donated $50 to the flood sufferers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The citizens of London West<br>Their patience oft is put to test<br>When they behold the various dams<br>Do cause the floods and the ice jams.<br>'Tis true that fiercer rages floods<br>Since country it was stript of woods,<br>Acid river it doth broader spread <br>With numerous tile drains quicker fed.<br>If they did raise embankment high <br>They might the raging floods defy.<br>Shall they with sadness gaze ever,<br>Or with gladness on the river?<br>River with dams it will not wed,<br>It wants no strangers in its bed,<br>And 'gainst them it will rage and fret<br>for 'tis no gentle rivulet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</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=416076" data-title="London West de James McIntyre" data-description="While the Thames meanders gently through the green pasture fields of Ingersoll, a pleasing picture to behold, how dif- ferent, alas, is the feeling in London West, where the river is an object of dread and terror, neither pleasing to the eye or no..."></div> </div> </div>

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