IF I should ever by chance grow rich <br />I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, <br />Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater, <br />And let them all to my eldest daughter. <br />The rent I shall ask of her will be only <br />Each year's first violets, white and lonely, <br />The first primroses and orchises-- <br />She must find them before I do, that is. <br />But if she finds a blossom on furze <br />Without rent they shall all forever be hers, <br />Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, <br />Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,-- <br />I shall give them all to my elder daughter.<br /><br />Edward Thomas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-i-should-ever-by-chance/
