David Lewis Paget Poems

‘Why do they call it Goblin Castle? '
I asked my friend, Carstairs,
We sat, gazed up at the battlements,
‘It's a hell of a way up there! '
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Whenever I ride in the countryside
On the further side of the hill,
I can see the new church steeple, rising
Over the fields and rills,
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In the time of knights and chivalry
In the Castle of Grim Intent,
There lived the Baron de Romilly
That the King or the Devil had sent,
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There were sisters three, and they all were free
In a town called Tavistock,
Freer than they would want to be
As they stared at the Town Hall Clock.
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They'd painted a cross on the door outside
To keep the devil at bay,
While Ann took care of the soul cakes that
She'd baked in a shallow tray,
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I'd rented out the basement of
A house I used to own,
I hated renting places
I preferred to live alone,
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‘There are giants out in the hinterland,
There are monsters, horrible frogs,
There are birds of prey out there all day
There are streets of savage dogs.
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Back in the tiny town of Hamm
In a province best unknown,
Is an ancient sandstone prison tower
Where the grounds are overgrown.
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I'd thought that they were extinct until
I found one in the coop,
A genuine Jersey Giant, strutting
Up on the henhouse roof,
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‘There are times and tides in every life,
There are things we never planned, ’
The old man said to his grandson there
As he took him by the hand,
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