David Lewis Paget Poems

She'd lived alone since her husband left
Just after the fall of Rome,
Deep in the forest she'd kept herself
In the tangle of trees called home.
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Lord Tremayne of the barren plain
Held his land in fief to the King,
The wily William Rufus, who
Ruled over everything,
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He wandered in a country lane
Beside a hedgerow, in the rain,
And heard a voice, so sweet and low,
‘Oh sir, why have you left me so? '
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I had a friend when I was four
We played upon his rocking horse,
His father said: ‘Be kind to him, ’
And so I was, so gentle then.
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They’d said that he was an engineer
In the grand old age of steam,
I wouldn’t know, I was far too young
I was still in school, at Cheam,
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‘My Lord, My lord, won’t you let me be? ’
She screamed from her ivory tower,
Sir Roland stood by her castle gate,
And all that he did was glower.
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I sailed the yacht right into the cove
And away from the breaking storm,
I hadn’t intended staying there,
It was dark before the dawn,
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My uncle married the only girl
That I’d ever really loved,
I’d thought that she was an angel, sent
Expressly down from above,
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They ripped his body out of the grave
That had been a National Shrine,
Tipped his statue into the nave
To avenge his terrible crime,
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I don’t remember my grandfather
He died, before I was born,
And none of the uncles and aunts had kids
So I grew apart, alone,
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