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Soon each bud will have the courage
                                                                                                                               like me

                                                                                                     To raise its head and bloom
                                                                                                                               like me

                                                                                                   And that will be the end of the
                                                                                                          Winter gloom
                                                                                                                               like me
                                                                                                      The freesias are splendid
                                                                                                     Shades of lilac and yellow –
                                                                                                  As Wordsworth’s golden daffodils
                                                                                                    On that glorious Spring day
                                                                                                    “Out-did the waves in glee”
                                                                                                   So the perfume of these freesias
                                                                                                      Out-do even the colours
                                                                                                       Of this glorious spray.
                                                                                                         Back to the table
                                                                                                     And the chair where I sit –
                                                                                                      Freesia perfumed oxygen
                                                                                                    From Boots of Wood Green –
                                                                                                     I’m wondering if the NHS
                                                                                                          Or even BOC
                                                                                                  Would provide a bunch of freesias
                                                                                                      With each cylinder free.


                                                                                                 ‘like me’ to be sung in a falsetto voice,
                                                                                                    to the tune of ‘Rule Britannia’.








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