David Lewis Paget Poems

I had no idea of who she was,
But knew she appealed to me,
All that I knew, her name was Roz,
So I wove her history.
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There was someone I detested at
The edges of my dream,
He was sneaky, underhanded and
I thought him quite unclean,
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She didn't want her to be with him,
She wanted Anne for herself,
Since ever he had been on the scene
It was like she was on the shelf.
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It hovered above on the ceiling,
It only would come at night,
My sister said she'd a feeling
It was dark, and was full of fright,
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I got a job at the Carnival,
All the fun of the fair,
With its Carousels and its Wishing Wells
And The Ferris wheel up there,
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The little Toy Shop in the High Street,
With its pebble glass windows and doors,
Was a magical place, with its curtains of lace
And delight on its shelves and its floors.
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I’d not seen them out in the open,
They grew in the alleys and lanes,
A purple flower with a sort of power
In the scent from its pores and veins,
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‘Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye,
Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye
The Black Douglas shall not get ye’
(Northern English lullaby)
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We decided to offer a non-event
For it hadn't been done before,
We ordered a super, over-sized tent
And the grass to grow on the floor,
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The first time that I noticed them
I passed them on the stair,
She wore an amulet love-charm then
He was much too old for her.
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