"I used to have dozens of handkerchiefs
Of finest lawn.
I used to have silk shirts and fine new suits."
He's like a faun
This darling out-at-elbows Irish boy.
"Those were the days
Before the war
When money could be earned a thousand ways.
But nowlast week I had a muslin bag
For handkerchief!
No socks, no shirts"but wiles and smiles and gleams
Beyond belief.
"I used to have dozens of handkerchiefs"
written byLesbia Harford
© Lesbia Harford