<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sir Richard's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(A. D. 1066)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I followed my Duke ere I was a lover,<br>To take from England fief and fee;<br>But now this game is the other way over--<br>But now England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had my horse, my shield and banner,<br>And a boy's heart, so whole and free;<br>But now I sing in another manner--<br>But now England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As for my Father in his tower,<br>Asking news of my ship at sea,<br>He will remember his own hour--<br>Tell him England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As for my Mother in her bower,<br>That rules my Father so cunningly,<br>She will remember a maiden's power--<br>Tell her England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As for my Brother in Rouen City,<br>A nimble and naughty' page is he,<br>But he will come to suffer and pity--<br>Tell him England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As for my little Sister waiting<br>In the pleasant orchards of Normandie,<br>Tell her youth is the time for mating--<br>Tell her England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As for my comrades in camp and highway<br>That lift their eyebrows scornfully,<br>Tell them their way is not my way--<br>Tell them England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kings and Princes and Barons famed,<br>Knights and Captains in your degree;<br>Hear me a little before I am blamed--<br>Seeing England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Howso great man's strength be reckoned,<br>There are two things he cannot flee.<br>Love is the first, and Death is the second-<br>And Love in England hath taken me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510885" data-title="Sir Richard's Song de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="(A. D. 1066) I followed my Duke ere I was a lover, To take from England fief and fee; But now this game is the other way over-- But now England hath taken me! I had my horse, my shield and banner, And a boy's heart, so whole and free; But now I..."></div> </div> </div>

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