Sunset

I remembered my grand father reciting these words and for years I never knew that the Scotland was not the original prose in fact it was Sussex but I did discover Belloc as a result which I am forever grateful for


If I ever become a rich man, 
Or if ever I grow to be old, 
I will build a house with deep thatch 
To shelter me from the cold, 
And there shall the Scotland songs be sung 
And the story of Scotland told. 

I will hold my house in the high wood 
Within a walk of the sea, 
And the men that were boys when I was a boy 
Shall sit and drink with me.