To Number 27X

written by


« Reload image

Beloved Peeler! friend and guide
  And guard of many a midnight reeler,
None worthier, though the world is wide,
  Beloved Peeler.

Thou from before the swift four-wheeler
  Didst pluck me, and didst thrust aside
A strongly built provision-dealer

Who menaced me with blows, and cried
  'Come on!  Come on!'  O Paian, Healer,
Then but for thee I must have died,
  Beloved Peeler!

© Robert Fuller Murray