I'd always wanted a castle, so
I bought one in the Spring.
It wasn't much of a castle,
Overgrown with everything,
...
The trees are dry, have a withered look
And the wheat has gone to seed,
The skies are grey on a summer's day
And the river's filled with weed,
...
So many years have passed us by,
So many great events,
Sometimes I smile, or sit and cry
At some of the incidents.
...
We lived in a house a cleric built
In fifteen sixty-three,
Deep in a copse of Roman Elms
A grand and mighty tree,
...
She wasn't a striking beauty, but
I loved her with all my heart,
I know that I always meant to tell,
I should have done from the start,
...
The Queen had paid the eunuchs to
Decapitate the King,
And once the deed was done, she thought,
‘I'm Queen of everything.'
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The wind grew chill on a summer's day
And the clouds built up outside,
‘It looks like a storm is coming our way, '
Said the folk of Ezra's Pride,
...
We'd picked up the cottage for peanuts, as
It sat on the edge of a wood,
The air was damp and we used a lamp,
No power in that neighbourhood,
...
The lighthouse at Le Cap de Grace
Was damp and dark at best,
The rain would sweep in from the south,
The wind rage from the west,
...
I sit in the room in my easy chair
And ponder my life in the gloom,
The source of my wonder is where did it go,
While racing me on to the tomb,
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