David Lewis Paget Poems

My brother was twelve years older so
I knew him not so well,
But heard of him in the taverns,
Getting drunk, and raising hell,
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Who would have thought the storm would come
So soon, from a pale blue sky,
When the weather man said, ‘Fine til noon,
And the afternoon, quite dry.'
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When Alison left the bath to run
It ruined the parquet floor,
It spilled on out like a waterspout
And ran right under the door,
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He crashed on into our dining room
Like a man convulsed with pain,
And breathless, gasped as he tried to ask,
‘What have you done with Jane? '
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His parents had both been gone so long
He'd forgotten how they looked,
So gathered up all the photographs
And pasted them in a book,
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We came in through the undergrowth
To a patch of blasted trees,
Then checked the radiation that
Had brought earth to its knees,
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There's a time at night when the moon is full
And the breakers pound the beach,
The world is dark and asleep, the gull
Lies nesting at the breach,
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I had an Indian Fakir come
To stay, from Uttar Pradesh,
I was doing a friend a favour,
I don't, as a rule, have guests,
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‘We must have entered the Latter Days
For the Moon has broken in two, '
Said Paul Maresh in the month of May
Of Twenty Twenty-two,
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Set me out forewarned
While the heather glistened,
Tramped the starbright road
While my lady listened,
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