David Lewis Paget Poems

I've been looking in the mirror
Every day since I was three,
Till a week ago I looked again
And saw it wasn't me.
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From trench to trench
You followed me, to speed
My penance at the midnight hour of life,
Once all was lost, and mine the greater need
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‘Abis, Ackerman, Benson and Blunt,
Stand to attention and look to the front,
Chiswell and Barnett
Who told you to fall out,
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They said she suffered from visions, so
They locked her up in her room,
I heard her pacing the floor in there
To softly cry in the gloom,
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‘Atten-shun!
Stand by your gun!
And look in the Frenchies eyes,
They're marching down at the sound of the drum
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This page is white as a white can be
Til I lift my pen and trace
A scrawl of black from an inky sac,
A tale of the human race.
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‘I am so tired, so tired, ’ he said,
‘So tired but cannot sleep, ’
He lay there restless in his bed
But could not even weep.
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The SatNav said, ‘Turn left ahead,
There’s going to be a crash,
A dozen cars are headed in
For one almighty smash! ’
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‘There once was a Prince called Llywelyn, Dai bach,
The Lord of this Snowdon Wales,
Back in the mists of the mountain, when times
Saw wolves leave their blood-stained trails.'
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The wind crept in from the southern gulf
And it rustled through the trees,
As clouds flew over, covered the sun
In some vast conspiracy,
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