IN A MONASTERY GARDEN
There was a young monk of 8..8.. who was smuggled aboard one day; He had no pass, so in quarters first class he whiled his hours away. Four walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage • A length of string, a bit of chain, could not this cheeky monk detain. The 17th Company, down in D 3, were throwing out doubts on the family tree Down came an'Officer brave and bold-” After that monk,now do as you’re told.* •Where is that monk?* was--the question asked-Before it was answered,the buzzard flew past. * Hot on his trail was Champion Bourne, but the monkey’s tail was lifted in - scorn. •. ' ■ * ■ But even this monk, so agile and gay was like the dog who’d had his dayCaptured at last, flag at half mast,he provided the Mess with its mid-day repast. r
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Serial Waves, Volume 2, Issue 2, 27 September 1940, Page 4
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