| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| Edward Thomas. 1878–1917 |
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| 103. If I Should Ever By Chance |
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| IF I should ever by chance grow rich | |
| I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, | |
| Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater, | |
| And let them all to my elder daughter. | |
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| The rent I shall ask of her will be only | 5 |
| Each year's first violets, white and lonely, | |
| The first primroses and orchises— | |
| She must find them before I do, that is. | |
| But if she finds a blossom on furze | |
| Without rent they shall all for ever be hers, | 10 |
| Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, | |
| Roses, Pyrgo and Lapwater,— | |
| I shall give them all to my elder daughter. | |
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