Out of us all
That make rhymes,
Will you choose
Sometimes -
As the winds use
A crack in a wall
Or a drain,
Their joy or their pain
To whistle through -
Choose me,
You English words?
Source: Words.
-- Edward Thomas, (Mar 3 1878-1917), English poet, critic; His poems, If I Should Ever By Chance and Early One Morning have been collected into Poems, 1917 and Last Poems, 1918.