KEEPSAKE MILL

Home from the Indies and home from une ocean,
Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home;
Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion,

Turning and churning that river to foam.

You with the bean that I gave when we
quarrelled,
I with your marble of Saturday last,
Honoured and old and all gaily apparelled,
Here we shall meet and remember the past.

 

“THE -BEAN- THAT: 1-GAVE ‘WHEN: WE -
QUARRELLED”

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