Crowned with Glory?

MAGPIE TALES

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CROWNED WITH GLORY?

I can't remember being six during this momentous year.

Vague recollections come to me, but nothing very clear.

I was at school, of course, and so there must have been celebrations,

Maybe mugs like this dispersed, and lots of decorations.

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The vivid memories I have are of the present Queen

Being crowned, in London, for I was on the scene.

Not there in the Abbey! For I was of no account,

And members of the public didn't rate a great amount.

No, I was in the thronging crowd that filled the streets that day,

Back then when Royals had not displayed their woeful feet of clay!

I was in my twenties then! Oh what a heady age!

I really felt I was strutting on Life's enormous stage!

The rain came down, my view was blocked, my feet got damp and sore

But dutifully I added to the crowd's triumphant roar!

A New Elizabethan Age had dawned, we felt that then;

And Hillary climbed Everest! Most heroic of men!

The spirit of Great Britain was joyful and uplifting!

At last the clouds left by The War were to the distance shifting!

The new Queen was a lovely girl! Her husband was a dish!

It seemed, that day, as though we could make true our every wish!

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My grandson, Harry, yesterday, also became six.

And, oh dear me, the world is looking in a pretty fix!

So many dreams gone down the drain, so many hopes departed!

So many ideals trashed it seems! No wonder we're downhearted.

My memories of six years old are vague in the extreme.

So will his be, all misty, as in some forgotten dream.

But, by the time he's twenty, more than just a little boy,

I hope he feels, as I did, full of optimistic joy.

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COOL!

This cucumber looks full of pride and why should he not do so?
I wonder if you've realised that he can help you too, so..............

1. If your bathroom mirror's fogging up wipe it with a slice;
It then will shine as good as new; your reflection will look nice.

2. If your garden's full of pests take an aluminium tin
And slice some bits of cucumber and simply lay therein.
The scent arising from the tin and cucumber combined
Drives pests completely crazy and they'll run away, you'll find.

3. Do your shoes need cleaning? Cucumber will do them!
Each shoe will shine as bright as day and the rain will not get to them!

4. A squeaky hinge? Why bother with some chemical improvement?
Cucumber will decrease the noise and then increase the movement!

The humble cucumber, my friends, can help you as a rule.
On top of that it's always absolutely cool!
Yes COOL!

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