In Praise of Home
\nby cricketjeff on January 29, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nI’ve seen Pyramids by moonlight, taken boat-trips on the Nile
\nWalked on balmy golden beaches where the local beauties smile,
\nSeen the cloud-kissed Himalayas, walked on China’s ancient walls.
\nFelt the constant inundation of the World’s most famous falls.
\nBut the scenes that leave me breathless where I feel my heart portrayed
\nAre of sunny days in England, when there’s cricket to be played.<\/p>\n
When I walk on Lakeland mountains, find a friendly local pub,
\nDrink a pint of cloudy cider as I finish up my grub.
\nI’m as certain as I can be there are roads that don’t find Rome
\nThere can never be another place like home.<\/p>\n
I adore the Scottish Islands, where the rocks defy the sea,
\nAnd the green of Ireland’s heartlands always sing a song for me.
\nI could sit and gaze for hours from the mountain tops of Wales
\nBut it’s walks on English Downland that will top my list of tales.
\nI can settle in the sunlight where my first great plans were laid
\nOn a sunny day in England when there’s cricket to be played.<\/p>\n
Though the Rocky Mountain’s grandeur can’t be equalled in my land
\nAnd a cocktail may taste sweeter sat on Caribbean sand.
\nKublai Khan was not in Greenwich when he saw his pleasure dome
\nBut there’ll never be a better place than home<\/p>\n
When I saw the stars shine brightly in a dark Saharan sky
\nI was overwhelmed by beauty till I thought that I might cry.
\nAnd in Singapore the Harbour with its city streets of ships
\nBrought an off-tune sailor’s hornpipe from the space between my lips
\nBut it’s England where my heart lives and her charms can’t be outweighed
\nOn a sunny day in Summer when there’s cricket to be played!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Praise of Home by cricketjeff on January 29, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I’ve seen Pyramids by moonlight, taken boat-trips on the Nile Walked on balmy golden beaches where the local beauties smile, Seen the cloud-kissed Himalayas, walked on China’s ancient walls. Felt the constant inundation of the World’s most famous falls. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5299","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5299\/revisions\/6209"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}