Behold Our Anglican Remainders
Chief among the mammals
Hector was a bear,
Who ambled here and there
As the fancy took him
Up the stream or down
Without an angry frrown
Working in enamels
Was his chosen job
With his grand-child, Rob
Metals laid with colour
Porcelain and pencil
Etched upon a stencil
As his foes forsook him
So depression smote hard
Churlish and ill-starred
Such is rank contagion
Enmity and spite
For a bear in plight
With his child, Abdullah
Who sold him some sprouts,
And teapots lacking spouts
He roamed the heady wastelands
Gasping some refrain
With no sure disdain
And in that arid region
Where spiders rule the world
His aimless plan unfurled.
He grew an hundred taste-glands
The better to discern
Which biscuit he should spurn
| Contributors: | Surlaw, Apsley. |
| Poem finished: | 12th December 2001. |