<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519150" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Epitaph for a Husbandman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He who would start and rise<br> Before the crowing cocks, --<br> No more he lifts his eyes,<br> Whoever knocks.<br> He who before the stars<br> Would call the cattle home, --<br> They wait about the bars<br> For him to come.<br> Him at whose hearty calls<br> The farmstead woke again<br> The horses in their stalls<br> Expect in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Busy and blithe and bold<br> He laboured for the morrow, --<br> The plough his hands would hold<br> Rusts in the furrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> His fields he had to leave,<br> His orchards cool and dim;<br> The clods he used to cleave<br> Now cover him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But the green, growing things<br> Lean kindly to his sleep, --<br> White roots and wandering strings,<br> Closer they creep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Because he loved them long<br> And with them bore his part,<br> Tenderly now they throng<br> About his heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Charles+George+Douglas+Roberts">Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts</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=519150" data-title="An Epitaph for a Husbandman de Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts" data-description="He who would start and rise Before the crowing cocks, -- No more he lifts his eyes, Whoever knocks. He who before the stars Would call the cattle home, -- They wait about the bars For him to come. Him at whose hearty calls The farmstead w..."></div> </div> </div>

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