Ladies and gentlemen who congregate here
can I tempt you away from your liquor and beer?
I have gathered my works in a prominent tome
to be read at your leisure by the fire at home.
You might turn away with indifference or scorn
ignoring this upstart so poor and forlorn
But this struggling poet has offspring to feed
who keenly await a benevolent deed
piously praying that God will provide
‘cos they ain’t had a meal since Michelmastide

‘Shall we eat tonight father?’ asks the youngest of seven
‘and will mummy gaze down from her new home in heaven?’

‘And shall we yet slumber in soft feather beds
with a warm humble cottage over our heads?’

Oh what should I say to poor malnourished Tim?
If you don’t want to do it for me - think of him.


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