David Lewis Paget Poems

I was travelling through the country
That was once East Turkestan,
Keeping my western mouth shut in
The province, Xinjiang,
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I’d only woken an hour before
And it seemed to cause a stir,
With people pouring into the room,
Coming from everywhere,
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I got the call at eleven o’clock,
‘They want you to dig a grave! ’
It wasn’t such a terrible shock,
The message came by a knave.
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Elijah worked at the further end
Of the Port McDonald pier,
His job was simply to keep the light
Bright burning through the year,
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She was always essentially evil with
Her long, straight raven hair,
Her eyes as black as a midden, and
Her cheeks, so smooth and fair,
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The Starship Galaxy III came in
To land in a farmer’s field,
There wasn’t much of a barley crop
For the seed had failed to yield,
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He put a flint to the lantern once
They’d walked across the crest,
Were lost in a group of headstones that
Lay hidden from the rest,
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The thunder was rumbling overhead
As we walked toward the church,
I whispered, ‘What are you doing, girl,
Are you leaving me in the lurch? ’
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‘The world has left me behind, ’ he said,
‘I live my life in the past,
None of the things that I came to love
Survived, they just couldn’t last.
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‘You’ve come to the end, it’s sad, my friend
But there’s nothing more we can do,
Your kidneys have malfunctioned, and
You’re at the end of the queue.
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