<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560087" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John The Odd</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With other children games he did not play<br>When they played football he would steal away<br>To take short walk or rest in shade of tree<br>He felt happy in his own company.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He did not have sporting hero as a god<br>And other children called him 'John the odd'<br>And other put down names like idiot and fool<br>But he ignored their taunts and kept his cool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He loved Nature and Nature was his friend<br>And his leisure hours out with Nature he spend<br>And 'twas Nature first taught him to be a poet<br>And to her children his first rhymes he wrote.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wrote of Nature's creatures living free<br>The birds of song who live on bush and tree<br>The animals that live on land and sea<br>He loved Nature and her huge family.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From their schooldays men recall John the odd<br>They say he went to join his Nature God<br>One morning he left home for far away<br>And none know of his whereabouts today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With other boys he did not play football<br>And those who went to school with him recall<br>That with Nature he spent his leisure time<br>And 'twas Mother Nature who taught him how to rhyme.</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=560087" data-title="John The Odd de Francis Duggan" data-description="With other children games he did not play When they played football he would steal away To take short walk or rest in shade of tree He felt happy in his own company. He did not have sporting hero as a god And other children called him 'John the o..."></div> </div> </div>

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