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IVYDENE COTTAGE

Astonian

gone but not forgotten
T'IS Well I know that often folk keep wondering,
      When in my eyes a Far --look they see,
      What can it be the cause of all my dreaming,
      What is this dream so very dear to me ?

      And truth to tell, ti's often I go roaming
      In dreams of along the road of memory,
      To where my heart will find its consolation
       Within that lovely cottage by the Lee.

       My home sweet home that I so fondly cherich,
       The dear one there mean evrything to me;
       In all this World if there can be a heaven,
       I'm sure it's in that cottage by the Lee .

        T'is well I stand outside that cottage door way,
        And gaze across the corn fields rich and gold;
        To hear that stream go rippling by the meadow,
         Or watch the sheppard calling to his fold.

         And down the lane that winds behind,
         The black bird greets the smiling summer morn,
         And as his music echoes O'ER THE VALLEY,
         You smile and bless the day that you was born .

          And thats my dream, my lovely dream
           Of home land ,
           And tho' I thought a rover I could be,
          T'was soon I found I'd left my heart behind me ,
            Within that Lovely cottage by the Lee.
 
Lovely poem Astonian - We are given memories so we can have our roses in December
 
THANK YOU BERYL,
MY EYES ARE NOT AS THEY SHOULD BE ,
BUT MY MEMORIES ARE GOOD ,
I AM A GREEN FINGERED PERSON , I,VE INHERITED FROM MY MOTHER/
AND HER FAMILY, WHOM WAS THE BIG MARKET FLOWER GROWERS , AND TODAY SOME OF THE SIBBLING
ARE STILL GROWING ON THE LANDS ACROSS EVERSHAM, HONEYBOURNE AND KNIGHTON WORC
AND THE THATCH COTTAGES . THE ONE OF MY FAVORITE ONES WAS MY GRAND FATHERS , AND IT HAS BEEN PASSED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION , AND IT WAS CALLED IVYDENE
IT HAD NO ELECTRIC NOR GAS AND THE WELL WAS IN THE GARDENFOR USE
AND THE STREAM WAS RUNNING AROUND THE GARDEN

WELL BERYL I MUST STOP NOW MY EYES ARE GETTING TIRED

ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT , BEST WISHES ASTONIAN ,;;;;
 
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