THE CHESHIRE NIGHTINGALES
(First published in “Winged Words” March 1975; believed composed several years earlier)In Cheshire, my dear, there’s no nightingales here
To enchant any listener below –
But come with me, lass: through the leafy lanes pass,
And round by the Airport we’ll go!
to the back of the Airport we’ll go!
In the midsummer dark, as they pull up to park,
Are they watching the aeroplanes go –
The maid and the man in an old Austin van?
- Well, the answer, most likely, is NO!
the answer – discreetly – is NO.
For no nightingale’s song could distract them for long;
But what’s more ASTONISHING though
They can even forget every THUNDERING JET
As it ROARS o’er the valley below!
as it ROARS o’er the lovers below!
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