Excerpt from As You See It Le Petit Mair Avoir une maison... To have a house, clean, comfortable and sweet, Where France's shoulder, if it so might be, Naked and swy woos the Channel sea, Fringed with sea pinks where chalk and clover meet -To have a house, clean, comfortable and sweet. To cultivate our garden, with a prayer: To say, when autumn mellows the red wall, This is September; this is best of all: Spring brought a fever, summer many a tear -To cultivate our garden, with a prayer. To have good wine, ripe fruit, a table spread -To hook the shutter back at on and say, I can see England - I smell rain to-day, And coffee freshly ground, and baking bread -To have good wine, ripe fruit, a table spread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.