QUEEN MARY OF WINDSOR.
A regal large chapeau, once diadem,
Queen Mary's corsets, now a spangle gown,
Once Castle Caernarvon and down and down
The hill to flaming war and stark mayhem.
The Delhi Durbar and Imperial gem
From Crown of India to Londontown,
Address to Parliament and a dress as noun,
A lovely vision takes her tea, ahem.
Her spirit moved along with all the age,
This mod and modern age of cogs and wheels,
Utopian wars and history on each page,
The war to end wars, devoted to Ideals,
Her book of history taken from the shelf
Becomes this way a great Ideal herself.
--DANIEL A.I. SWANGER
2012.
A regal large chapeau, once diadem,
Queen Mary's corsets, now a spangle gown,
Once Castle Caernarvon and down and down
The hill to flaming war and stark mayhem.
The Delhi Durbar and Imperial gem
From Crown of India to Londontown,
Address to Parliament and a dress as noun,
A lovely vision takes her tea, ahem.
Her spirit moved along with all the age,
This mod and modern age of cogs and wheels,
Utopian wars and history on each page,
The war to end wars, devoted to Ideals,
Her book of history taken from the shelf
Becomes this way a great Ideal herself.
--DANIEL A.I. SWANGER
2012.