David Lewis Paget Poems

It was ages since I'd seen him,
So I felt quite out of step
With the old Etruscan sculptor
That I knew as Magnus Kep,
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We live out at Bundaleer in
A cabin, in the bush,
Where the air is so much cleaner,
And there's little need to rush,
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I had a fright the other night,
I dreamt that I was ill,
The Angels fluttered round my bed,
They said: 'Now you be still! '
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The last I saw of Sebastian Fudge
He was dancing the hempen jig,
To pay for the years of pirating
At the side of Captain Kidd.
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They'd played together since they were young,
They'd grown through puppy love,
Both Michael Merrill and Cathy Powers
Were love-matched, from above.
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Where are the yelps and the cries now, Magda,
Where did the squeals and the laughter go?
Where the bright eyes and the sighs now, Magda?
Gone where the shadows of darkness go!
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In the London of James
We ran wild in the parks,
Assaulted the toffs,
Ruled the streets after dark,
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…And where now, my Pain?
Now that you’ve gone, done a runner
On the bullet train;
One moment’s squeeze, then sigh,
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'I cannot tell the truth, ' he said,
'In truth, I always lie.'
I lay back on the gentle grass
And looked up at the sky,
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In the half-twilight of my empty year
Where I crouch, hemmed in
By an avalanche of days,
I hear the trees murmur
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