Christmas RhymeFor OurTimes

A FINAL VERSE TO GOOD KING WENCESLAS

Had he not been such a twit And his page another, Op’d the casement just a bit, Called out: ‘Come in, brother! Get some dinner while it’s hot; Look at you, you’re wringing.’ If he’d done that we should not Be this carol siiiiiiinging. A. Hutchinson, Hayes, Middlesex.

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Philip Hammond’s not such a dull bloke, Having shown he can crack the odd joke, So maybe he’ll land up In the clubs doing stand-up, And we’ll laugh while the country goes broke! I. G. Fenner, New Milton, Hants.