For These + 

An acre of land between the shore and the hills, + 

Upon a ledge that shows my kingdoms three, + 

The lovely visible earth and sky and sea, + 

Where what the curlew needs not, the farmer tills: + 

A house that shall love me as I love it, + 

Well-hedged, and honoured by a few ash-trees + 

That linnets, greenfinches, and goldfinches + 

Shall often visit and make love in and flit: + 

A garden I need never go beyond, + 

Broken but neat, whose sunflowers every one + 

Are fit to be the sign of the Rising Sun: + 

A spring, a brook’s bend, or at least a pond: + 

For these I ask not, but, neither too late + 

Nor yet too early, for what men call content, + 

And also that something may be sent + 

To be contented with, I ask of fate. + 