David Lewis Paget Poems

I had an Indian Fakir come
To stay, from Uttar Pradesh,
I was doing a friend a favour,
I don't, as a rule, have guests,
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‘We must have entered the Latter Days
For the Moon has broken in two, '
Said Paul Maresh in the month of May
Of Twenty Twenty-two,
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Set me out forewarned
While the heather glistened,
Tramped the starbright road
While my lady listened,
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I have left my heart
In the high, high sky
That you might still see
When I’m gone, close by;
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The store had been closed for a month or more,
The Receivers opened the door,
To auction off all the fittings there,
Whatever stood on the floor,
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There wasn’t much left of the woods out there
By the time that they built the town,
Only a dozen square miles or so
For the rest had been cut down,
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My brother was twelve years older so
I knew him not so well,
But heard of him in the taverns,
Getting drunk, and raising hell,
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My father died of the cholera
In eighteen thirty-two,
There wasn't a place at the cemetery
To bury him, that we knew,
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We were sitting, reminiscing
Of the civil war in Spain,
Where my uncle fought for Franco,
Never saw his home again.
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The mother lay in a stupor filled
With alcohol and drugs,
The twins lay wet in the carry-cot
And screamed at the top of their lungs,
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