<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419440" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hodge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He plays with other boys when work is done,<br>But feels too clumsy and too stiff to run,<br>Yet where there's mischief he can find a way<br>The first to join and last [to run] away.<br>What's said or done he never hears or minds<br>But gets his pence for all the eggs he finds.<br>He thinks his master's horses far the best,<br>And always labours longer than the rest.<br>In frost and cold though lame he's forced to go--<br>The call's more urgent when he journeys slow.<br>In surly speed he helps the maids by force<br>And feeds the cows and hallos till he's hoarse;<br>And when he's lame they only jest and play<br>And bid him throw his kiby heels away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Clare">John Clare</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=419440" data-title="Hodge de John Clare" data-description="He plays with other boys when work is done, But feels too clumsy and too stiff to run, Yet where there's mischief he can find a way The first to join and last [to run] away. What's said or done he never hears or minds But gets his pence for all th..."></div> </div> </div>

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