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HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 1. BRONWEN by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS

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First Line: IF I SHOULD EVER GROW RICH BY CHANCE
Last Line: I SHALL GIVE THEM ALL TO MY ELDER DAUGHTER.
Subject(s): FATHERS & DAUGHTERS;

If I should ever by chance grow rich
I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,
And let them all to my elder daughter.

The rent I shall ask of her will be only
Each year's first violets, white and lonely,
The first primroses and orchises --
She must find them before I do, that is.
But if she finds a blossom on furze
Without rent they shall all for ever be hers,
Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo and Lapwater, --
I shall give them all to my elder daughter.



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