Words<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Out of us all
\nThat make rhymes
\nWill you choose
\nSometimes –
\nAs the winds use
\nA crack in a wall
\nOr a drain,
\nTheir joy or their pain
\nTo whistle through –
\nChoose me,
\nYou English words?<\/p>\n
I know you:
\nYou are light as dreams,
\nTough as oak,
\nPrecious as gold,
\nAs poppies and corn,
\nOr an old cloak:
\nSweet as our birds
\nTo the ear,
\nAs the burnet rose
\nIn the heat
\nOf Midsummer:
\nStrange as the races
\nOf dead and unborn:
\nStrange and sweet
\nEqually,
\nAnd familiar,
\nTo the eye,
\nAs the dearest faces
\nThat a man knows,
\nAnd as lost homes are:
\nBut though older far
\nThan oldest yew, –
\nAs our hills are, old, –
\nWorn new
\nAgain and again:
\nYoung as our streams
\nAfter rain:
\nAnd as dear
\nAs the earth which you prove
\nThat we love.<\/p>\n
Make me content
\nWith some sweetness
\nFrom Wales
\nWhose nightingales
\nHave no wings, –
\nFrom Wiltshire and Kent
\nAnd Herefordshire, –
\nAnd the villages there, –
\nFrom the names, and the things
\nNo less.
\nLet me sometimes dance
\nWith you,
\nOr climb
\nOr stand perchance
\nIn ecstasy,
\nFixed and free
\nIn a rhyme,
\nAs poets do.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Edward Thomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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