David Lewis Paget Poems

He'd always thought there was somebody
Who could make his life complete,
Among all the faceless people that
He passed in the city street,
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She sat and stared from the window ledge,
She sat and stared at the sea,
Was sitting all through my childhood there
Since Eighteen fifty-three,
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They said that the Library was full,
Were going to pull it down,
They'd set up a whole new Google School
On the other side of town,
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‘Why do they call it Goblin Castle? '
I asked my friend, Carstairs,
We sat, gazed up at the battlements,
‘It's a hell of a way up there! '
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Whenever I ride in the countryside
On the further side of the hill,
I can see the new church steeple, rising
Over the fields and rills,
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In the time of knights and chivalry
In the Castle of Grim Intent,
There lived the Baron de Romilly
That the King or the Devil had sent,
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There were sisters three, and they all were free
In a town called Tavistock,
Freer than they would want to be
As they stared at the Town Hall Clock.
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They'd painted a cross on the door outside
To keep the devil at bay,
While Ann took care of the soul cakes that
She'd baked in a shallow tray,
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I'd rented out the basement of
A house I used to own,
I hated renting places
I preferred to live alone,
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I saw the cloud in the morning sky
So I turned to go back inside,
And I said to my wife, ‘It’s a shepherd’s dawn,
Or the red sky early warning, torn
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