David Lewis Paget Poems

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401.
The French Corvette

At midnight, out on the cobblestones
There's the sound of rolling wheels,
And a shadow cast on a window pane
From the road outside, it steals,
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402.
The Elopement

‘Be waiting up at the window, ' said
The note he sent by hand,
‘I'll come and collect you at midnight, '
Said the note, ‘the way we planned.'
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403.
The Selfling

I saw her first in the lighting flash
That lit her up in the storm,
The rain was beating on down to slash
Her more than shapely form,
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404.
The Character

I'd got to the final editing
Of my manuscript, last night,
When one of the characters in the gloom
Popped up, he wanted a fight.
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405.
The Lighthouse Wreck

The wreck sat out by the lighthouse where
It lay, smashed up on the rocks,
A miracle it had survived at all
Where felons sat in the stocks.
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406.
Twilight

I look for you in the twilight glow
When the sun dips over the rim,
When it's night time here and it's daytime there
And I think of you there with him.
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407.
Home To Roost

The mornings were cold and dreary when
We used to meet at the Kirk,
And you would be sad and teary on
The blustery days to work,
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408.
The Smuggler

We went to live in Smuggler's Cove
Near a cave, right on the beach,
Where once they'd hidden ill-gotten gains
In the cave, and out of reach.
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409.
Flight Of The Crows

We were out on a training mission
Up in a Neptune, hunting a sub,
The pilot was Captain Grissom
Taking a nap, aye, that was the rub,
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410.
The Waif

She was walking the damp and cobbled streets
Like one with nowhere to go,
I saw her quivering, cold and shivering
Deep in a fall of snow,
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