Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KEEP IT DARK, by HENRY CHAPPELL First Line: Lest you deem these lines belated Last Line: Just to alter things and keep it to ourselves. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise | ||||||||
LEST you deem these lines belated, I should wish it clearly stated I have precedents galore for my defection. For it seems the ruling passion, I might almost say the fashion, To keep anything like hurry in subjection. Now I'm but an humble scribe, (Quite a too prolific tribe); And there's many things I cannot see quite clearly; But I think it's quite de trop For to let the Germans know Any facts that touch our safety very nearly. If one gave an indication Too precise of the location, And the damage done by hostile aviator, All the Realm's Acts, stringent laws, Section, chapter, page and clause Would be trotted out to brand him as a traitor. Yet I read it, plainly printed, Cold and hard, not merely hinted, That we've not sufficient cannon to go round; And as for bagging Zepps, Up to now the only steps In some antiquated maxims has been found. There are other things they tell, But I think it quite as well To let one instance serve as illustration. And it seems, at least to me, That quite gratis and post free It is giving foes some useful information. If things don't work out quite straight, Well, whose fault is it we're late, And that plans of import moulder on the shelves? But enough, it seems to me That the wiser course would be Just to alter things and keep it to ourselves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX |
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