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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Admiral Nelson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When I was a child, in the Forest of Dean<br>We would play 'hunt deer', like a King or a Queen, <br>We would hide in the forest 'til the sun went down<br>Then hurry off in terror from old man Brown.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He lived in the forest in a house on a hill<br>And he wore torn shirts and a hat of brown twill, <br>He carried round a gun that he fired in the air<br>When he saw us picking berries in the trees up there.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He lived with his sister who was Emily Maude<br>Who had never even married, she was much too odd.<br>To impressionable children, a frightening pair -<br>He with his shotgun, she with her hair.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">For her hair blew wild, neither brushed nor combed<br>And it flew all over like a witch, old crone, <br>But she loved little children, so our parents said, <br>And warned, 'stay away, 'cause she's soft in the head! '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">On All Hallows Eve we were up in the oak<br>Like brave Robin Hood, I was dressed in a cloak, <br>An old green scarf that my mother threw out<br>That I thought was impressive as a camouflage coat.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There was Jock, Jim, Sandy, then Elaine and me<br>We were up in the branches, in the boughs of the tree<br>While down keeping watch was Ashley on the ground, <br>Getting tired and sleepy as the day wound down.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So it was, she never heard the old man come<br>But soon, there he was, and was carrying his gun, <br>And Ashley was caught by the collar of her coat<br>While the sounds of her screams just died in her throat.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He lined us all up and marched us up the hill<br>At the point of his gun, and against our will, <br>And he said, 'Aunt Emmy's set you up for a treat, <br>For it's All Hallow's Eve - so, all you can eat! '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He marched us to the house, in a cold, dark room<br>We could barely see each other in the dark, in the gloom<br>Then he sat us at a table with a stained veneer<br>And he called, 'Hey Emmy, all the guests are here! '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">She slid into the room like a wraith from a mist<br>And we all jumped together for she scared us to bits, <br>But she said, 'Now, children, there is no need to fret, <br>Tonight we'll have a party with the best fun yet.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">She took young Ashley by the collar of her coat, <br>'You come along with me; you can help me with the joke, <br>Then she brought a dozen apples and a dunking pot<br>And we all dunked for apples if we wanted to or not.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">She lit up all the candles in the pumpkin faces<br>Grinning in the dark from their hollowed out cases, <br>Old man Brown, he hurried out the back, <br>We heard him in the kitchen going clack-clack-clack.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then we ate sweet cakes with icing on the top<br>And a bowl of green jelly that had quivered, non-stop<br>'Til she brought in scarves and tied them round our eyes, <br>And said, 'Now children, here's my little surprise! '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We're going to play a game called Admiral Nelson<br>I used to play it once with my Granddad's stepson, <br>I'll pass you little pieces of Nelson as we speak, <br>Tell me what the part is - and don't you peek! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">She started up a chant in a high-pitched tone<br>While we sat in the darkness with our blindfolds on, <br>She sang a little story as she passed each piece, <br>Then we had to feel it, and it felt like grease.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Admiral Nelson<br>Stick him in a pot, <br>Cook him all up<br>'Til he's nice and hot, <br>Take him out and feel him<br>Steady as she goes, <br>See if you can pick<br>Lord Nelson's nose.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Jock was the first to hold out his hand, <br>'It's like a little button, too small for a man! <br>I bet it isn't Nelson's, that's what I think! '<br>He passed it on to me; I agreed, with a blink.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Poke him in the eye<br>That's covered in a patch, <br>Standing on the deck with<br>The Master of the Watch, <br>Try and feel the stump<br>Of his arm in a sling, <br>They took it off at Tenerife, <br>Feel that thing! '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Something heavy landed on the table just then, <br>'I think it's his eye, yuk, it's full of cold cream.'<br>Elaine started squealing - 'I must be going home, <br>I hate playing Nelson, and this silly pome.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then I felt something that was warm and wet still<br>Like skin torn from an arm or a leg, 'til<br>The end of the skin was the splinter of a bone, <br>Was it Nelson's shoulder? Well, who would have known? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Admiral Nelson<br>Lying on the deck, <br>Hit by a musketball<br>Right by his neck, <br>Feel something sticky<br>That's coming in a flood, <br>All across your fingers<br>Nelson's blood! '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then there were footsteps, Brown from the kitchen<br>Tipping out a pot of soup or something else with bits in, <br>Splashing on our faces, we'd all had enough, <br>We all jumped together - pulled our blindfolds off.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And there was Ashley, staring at the ceiling<br>Just the head and neck, and it sent us all reeling, <br>Pieces of her arms, flayed down to the bone; <br>We shrieked and we scattered, and we galloped on home.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'And Doc - that's all I can really remember, <br>I was just a kid then, Ashley was my sister! <br>About this medication now... when can I stop? <br>And why's all that blood dripping down your white smock? '</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=365652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">8 April 2009</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a></strong></div>