Way Back In Time Poem by Joyce Hemsley

Once upon a time, not very long ago
We resided in a simple world
A world of 'I don't know'.
Education failed us then
Balliol College was mainly for men,
Before the birth of the biro pen.

Way back in time, motors were in their prime
We lived with horse and carriage
And home-made rhubarb wine.
Transportation failed us then
We rambled through the forest glen
To view the seas again.

Way back in time we heard the noonday chime
Echo over the moors and snow,
And the wildest winds would blow.
But we made it in the end and
Lucy Gray was our best friend
As on her lamplit way she'd wend.

Once upon a time as everyone will know
we resided in a simple world,
A world of candleglow.
Electric wiring failed us then
No such phrase as 'spend-spend-spend'
In the year Nineteen O Ten.