54594: If I Should Ever by Chance

<p dir="ltr"> If I should ever by chance grow rich<br> I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,<br> Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,<br> And let them all to my elder daughter.<br> The rent I shall ask of her will be only<br> Each year's first violets, white and lonely,<br> The first primroses and orchises---<br> She must find them before I do, that is.<br> But if she finds a blossom on furze<br> Without rent they shall all for ever be hers,<br> Whenever I am sufficiently rich:<br> Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,<br> Roses, Pyrgo and Lapwater,---<br> I shall give them all to my elder daughter.<br></p>