A child was bullied on the way to school;
Impaled on the railings and liberally strewn
The middle pages of this weeks Beano
So what is this, and what does it mean, O?
From the smacking of lips in the tea-room seats
Lady Grey, poached eggs and clotted cream
To the clacking of bowls on the lawn
What in England was there born?
What in this green garden
Is there to do
But raise one arm to pardon
And catch twenty-two...?
For the lives of all these people
I can't work out the problem
I can't un-splash that ripple
I can't stop the sobbing...
Swifts and swallows from nearby France
Find their way to the green.... and then this branch
And don't disperse at the crack of willow
As the club rehearse their overs below
And all these things are going right
But I can't think of what to write
But the very same rhyme, oh, dignity
Is the very same length as a piece of string
Left lonely with my conscience
And other sorts of nonsense
Even the elderly admirals castle each other
Maybe the baby is cradled by her Mother
The ivy vines look pretty
When seen from the outside
But in the room I'm sitting
They've blocked out all the light....
For the lives of all these people
I can't work out the problem
I can't un-splash that ripple
I can't stop the sobbing...
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