<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=558931" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Matty Owens Bog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pipe of the curlew I fancy I hear<br>In Matty Owens bog many miles north of here<br>In the calm of a June evening melodious and clear<br>In Summer a beautiful time of year</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the watery bog hole with her blotched eggs neath her breast<br>Cloaked by the rank rushes his quiet wife sits on her nest<br>The curlews of the future to life she will bring<br>The beauty of Nature is an amazing thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pink breasted bullfinch so lovely to see<br>Perched on a high branch of a silver birch tree<br>One that one could stand and admire all day long<br>The beautiful bird with an ordinary song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the river pool the moorhen utters her shrill warning cry<br>To her young to alert them of danger nearby<br>Three tiny dark chicks with red faces mum's warning does heed<br>And swim into cover to hide in the reed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above Matty Owens bog in the still of the night<br>The male snipe with his tail in the Summer moonlight<br>He proclaims his territory in the night sky<br>And drums out a warning to other male snipe as he fly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=558931" data-title="In Matty Owens Bog de Francis Duggan" data-description="The pipe of the curlew I fancy I hear In Matty Owens bog many miles north of here In the calm of a June evening melodious and clear In Summer a beautiful time of year By the watery bog hole with her blotched eggs neath her breast Cloaked by the r..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black