Albert F. Bowden, A Heritage</head><body><center><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.com/p1.gif border=0 alt=Saviodsilva></center><hr color=3C00FF size=4><br><font size=4 face=arial><b><a href=3.htm>Albert F. Bowden</a></b></font><br><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.net/poem/a/1.JPG border=0 alt=Poem></center><br><font size=3 face=arial><b>A Heritage</a></b></font></center><blockquote><blockquote><p align=left><font face=arial size=2><b><p>I dwell in this land that is far away and safe.<br>Son, why can't you see what England means to me?<br>I who have been nurtured in this Canadian space,<br>yet long to be in England free.<br>You'll never understand what London means,<br>nor why the Abbey looms there grand;<br>nor why in spring I dream of an English May;<br>but I do, being born in the motherland.<br>Son, there's a heritage in English blood,<br>and her voice calls my heart across the sea.<br>The blood of England pulses in my veins,<br>and all her traditional ways are dear to me.<br>My ancestors once died on British fields,<br>such a bold heritage I bid you heed;<br>for in my veins there runs the blood of men,<br>who fought the tyrant King at Runnymede.<br>There upon the Avon, that I've often seen,<br>the man named Shakespeare wrote his words for me.<br>And here in these worried, troubled days,<br>I share in Masefield's journeys to the seas.<br>I know them all, the moors, the hedged in lanes,<br>the nightingale that sings it's heart away.<br>The coppice where as a child I gathered nuts,<br>the Lark, sweet singing at the break of day.<br>England is the Mother to all her sons,<br>let's speak good of her, drink her health in wine.<br>Know her great traditions and follow her lead;<br>my soul is England's and her life is mine.</p></b></font></blockquote></blockquote><hr color=0000ca size=3><center><font size=2 face=arial><b><a href=http://www.isavo.net/poem/sk6.htm>This Poem's Index Page 1</a><br><a href=http://www.yensa.net/poem/sk6.htm>This Poem's Index 2</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com/poems.htm>Poetry Website</a><br><a href=http://www.saviodsilva.com>Saviodsilva</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com>Isavo Site</a></b></font></center><SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.saviodsilva.org/r/fantasy.js></SCRIPT></body></html>