The Night Mail and Other Poems

[julesapple]

And watch her feet, how they can dance.

[julesapple]

No time to wait till her mouth can

[julesapple]

A poor life this if, full of care,

[julesapple]

We have no time to stand and stare.

[mothhawk]

As this is a gardening website, I think The Lady of Shalott would be appropriate for your next offering Jules, and of course it does have 171 lines

[julesapple]

Tis the General Chat section. I don't know The Lady of Shalott by heart - I'd have to look it up.

[julesapple]

The Gardener
by
Robert Louis Stevenson

[julesapple]

The gardener does not love to talk.

[mothhawk]

What better way to learn and memorise it, line by line? (I jest, of course!)

[julesapple]

He makes me keep the gravel walk;

[julesapple]

And when he puts his tools away,

[julesapple]

He locks the door and takes the key.

[julesapple]

Away behind the currant row,

[julesapple]

Where no one else but cook may go,

[julesapple]

Far in the plots, I see him dig,