Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MUCH VIRTUE IN IF, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE


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MUCH VIRTUE IN IF, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were king of this broad land
Last Line: With you crowned at my side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): England; English


IF I were king of this broad land,
And you were England's queen,
All high-roads should be glades of lawn,
All byways mossed and green;

The seashore should be lengthened out
With beach, and rock, and sand,
Till the most rural hamlet lay
Scarce seven mile inland.

Yea, long sea arms should wind and thread
Our midlands through and through,
That foresters and shepherd lads
Might watch the salt and blue.

Then caravans and pedlars,
Replacing shop and street,
Should bring folk dainty things to wear
And luscious things to eat.

A few of the great changes these,
On which we might decide,
If I were in Westminster throned
With you crowned at my side.





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