Bon Voyage!

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BON VOYAGE!

It was just before the old man died......

'Open the window! Open it wide!'

His breath was shallow, his voice was weak,

But everybody heard him speak.

A look of joy suffused his face

As he gazed, intent, at the open space.

He lay there, smiling a gentle smile

As his family waited for a while.

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'Oh look! There I am! The sun is so bright!

Look at me! I'm flying my kite!

And, goodness gracious, there are the trees

From which I'd fall to scrape my knees!

Oh no! They're the trees where I once strolled

With Mary. Mary....to have and hold.

And look! Look up! There's Joe!

I used to hold him up just so!

I'd toss him up towards the sky

And all he could say was 'Dada! I fly!'

That sky! It has the blue of Spain!

We travelled by car, by boat, by train!

Those trees are in our garden too!

I planted them when they were new!

They're like the ones under which our Joe

Married Elise! So long ago!

Then along came Archie! His big blue eyes

Were just the colour of those bright skies!

A grandson to love, to tend, to teach!

Blue, blue days on the golden beach!

And look!............. ' They heard his voice just cease.

Over his face spread a look of peace.

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But one final phrase they heard him say....

'Thanks for a lovely holiday'.

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A QUIRK AT WORK!

Oh that quirky DNA!
It works in a peculiar way!
I've always loved to tread the boards
(Though never winning fat awards!)
My two children would rather die
Than act! They say they'd feel too shy.
Yet here's my cousin's daughter, Ruth,
'A chip off the old block'! That's the truth!
Here she's a drunk! (Putting on an act.
We're a sober family; that's a fact!)
Britain's rather too far to go,
Or else I'd have paid to see the show.
Although Ruth's certainly not a daughter
Doesn't it prove blood's thicker than water!
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