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Mairi bheag
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How they brought the Good News...
...from Ghent to Aix,
or not, as the case may be.
(a deliberate attempt to murder Robert Browning, written for any woman who likes to dress up as a man )
I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;
I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;
We galloped and galloped, oh Lord how we galloped,
We galloped like billy-oh over the lea.
My steed gave a whinny, Dirck’s ass gave a bray,
As Joris, who rode in the van, cried “I say,
Three riders are galloping – My, how they gallop! –
They gallop like anything, heading this way!”
We held up our gauntlets and shouted halloo,
Demanded “Whence from, lads, and whither go you
Flat out at a gallop? Good grief how you gallop!
Oh please stop your galloping, good gallants, do!”
They reined to a halt and exclaimed, “Mercy sakes!
We’re three men of Ghent, all redoubtable rakes,
Who’ve galloped and galloped and jolly-well galloped,
a-bringing good news to the burghers of Aix!”
We cried, “We’re from Aachen – that’s Aix-la-Chapelle –
And we have glad tidings a-plenty as well.
We’ve galloped and galloped, right manfully galloped –
Supposed to reach Ghent by the Angelus bell!”
One rider from Ghent, with a beard like a Turk,
Said, “Though I’m not known as the fellow to shirk
A jolly good gallop – I love a good gallop –
It seems all this galloping’s double the work!”
I wanted to answer, but Joris said, “We
Could all turn around and be back home for tea.
Oh why don’t we gallop – a rattling gallop –
Let’s all gallop back and have several hours free!
We’ll take up each other’s work; nothing will daunt
The six jolly gallopers out on a jaunt.
Let’s gallop and gallop,
mon dieu
how we’ll gallop,
We three back to Aachen and you lot to Gaunt.”
I sprang to the stirrup; with whip-cracks and kicks
I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all six!
We galloped and galloped, oh Lord how we galloped,
Past such rustic nonsense as hen-coops and ricks.
We galloped to Aix as the rush hour was near,
No thoughts in our minds save for pork pies and beer.
We galloped and slavered – my word how we slavered –
For pork pies and barmaids and lots of good cheer.
We reached a fine inn, and Dirck could not refuse
To galumph right in for a tray-load of booze.
He galumphed for wallop, for gallons of wallop,
And Joris said, “Hey! What about the good news?”
I muttered to Dirck, and then Joris conferred –
The subject? The substance? And so we concurred
We’d galloped and galloped, all bloody day galloped,
But of the good news had forgot every word!
I spoke to the subject: “We’ll gallop to Ghent
The very same way that the other chaps went.
We’ll gallop and gallop,
bejabers
we’ll gallop!”
But Dirck said, “You’re barmy – our horses are spent!”
I raised my pint Bierstein, and Joris said, “We
Can do that tomorrow. The evening’s still free
To swallow our wallop. Tomorrow we’ll gallop…
…to whatsitsname… billy-oh… over the lea!”
Mb
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Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:18 am
Mairi bheag
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I parody one of the world's most famous poems, and she says "cute"!
Thank you, Eire
Mb
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Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:53 am
Mairi bheag
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Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:55 am
Avant-garde
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Location: NY
MB,
Cute and interesting I never know what you are going to write next.
smiles, _________________ ~poetry is the lover ,mine artistic soul, and the keeper of my tormented mind.
Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:50 pm
Mairi bheag
Joined: 04 Mar 2005
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quote:Originally posted by babyrouse:
MB,
Cute and interesting I never know what you are going to write next.
smiles,
Well damn - there goes another "
cute
"! I am racking up these cutes, aren't I!
Mb
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Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:29 pm
Sunny
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Mairi,
Would "incredibly creative and a delightfully humorous piece" please you more? Thanks for a good chuckle.
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well it is cute 
Would "incredibly creative and a delightfully humorous piece" please you more? Thanks for a good chuckle.
