<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476420" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Having To Live in the Country</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back once again in wild, wet Monaghan <br>Exiled from thought and feeling, <br>A mean brutality reigns: <br>It is really a horrible position to be in <br>And I equate myself with Dante <br>And all who have lived outside civilization. <br>It isn't a question of place but of people; <br>Wordsworth and Coleridge lived apart from the common man, <br>Their friends called on them regularly. <br>Swift is in a somewhat different category <br>He was a genuine exile and his heavy heart <br>Weighed him down in Dublin. <br>Yet even he had compensations for in the Deanery <br>He received many interesting friends <br>And it was the eighteenth century. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I suppose that having to live <br>Among men whose rages <br>Are for small wet hills full of stones <br>When one man buys a patch and pays a high price for it <br>That is not the end of his paying. <br>&quot;Go home and have another bastard&quot; shout the children, <br>Cousin of the underbidder, to the young wife of the purchaser. <br>The first child was born after six months of marriage, <br>Desperate people, desperate animals. <br>What must happen the poor priest <br>Somewhat educated who has to believe that these people have souls <br>As bright as a poet's - though I don't, mind, speak for myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+Kavanagh">Patrick Kavanagh</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=476420" data-title="Having To Live in the Country de Patrick Kavanagh" data-description="Back once again in wild, wet Monaghan Exiled from thought and feeling, A mean brutality reigns: It is really a horrible position to be in And I equate myself with Dante And all who have lived outside civilization. It isn't a question of plac..."></div> </div> </div>

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