ALL THROUGH THE MORNING

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All through the morning
Above fair pleasant town
The budding sun's adorning
His frame with fiery down

And quite without forewarning
before the bakery thick with bread,
A blue jay with a torn wing
Alights on the milkman's head

But meanwhile on the outskirts
Having wept since yester-eve
A widow finds her husband's tie and coat
She slips one over her nightshirt

Slides her arms in the sleeves
Then ties the other loosely 'round her throat

All through the morning
Children fill the school
Lines at the bank are forming
Which makes the banker drool

Ye old sweet shoppe is sporting
A grand window display
Lovers coo on a porch swing
Having snogged the night away

But creeping through her manor
On a stairway leading down
Our widow slips in silence through the door
And trembling with her spanner
She looks furtively around
As she slinks across dew encrusted moor

All through the morning
A band is carrying on
An eager crowd is forming
To hear "the band played on"

At the barber's the freshly shorn sing
"three coins in a fount"
As policemen issue warnings
From high atop their mounts

Now crouching in a hovel
Before a gaping hole
Our widow tosses in the coat and tie
Then taking up her shovel
With her heart as black as coal

She shovels dirt in where her husband softly lies

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