Monday 31 October 2011

Look who's here!


I know I've posted this chap before (last Halloween, in fact) but I'm so pleased with the way it turned out and the poem, I'm posting it again!


Once I used to stay in this fine Tenement
Worked hard for my silver for food and for rent
Times were hard and oft I was low
I worked you see, for the Darien Co.
But I look around now at how things once were
The press, the tapestry and fine oak carved chair
I remember too clearly at how I was feeling
When downstairs the wifie would bang on the ceiling
"Keep the noise doon, it's time ye were off
Ah've four hungry weans and yer spoilin' the broth"
Upstairs the judge lived with his lady wife
And he was the one who ended my life.
I robbed and I stole from the Darien Co
The company folded with nothing to show
In court the Judge told me, "Sir, you're a wreck,
You deserve to be flogged and then hung by the neck"
And so my life ended and I'm back to lament,
My life and my death in this fine Tenement. *

You can read about the Darien Company here: Darien Press

(*Thanks Valerie)


8 comments:

  1. Génial , le montage avec le fantôme !

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  2. And we are well happy to see this extraordinary Phantom ...
    Today is the right night ;-)

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  3. Love this photo and the poem :)

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  4. Hello Irene,

    A beautifully finished room with with a spooky resident!!
    I love the poem.

    The chair from your last post is beautiful...well done.

    Fi xx

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