I am standing at your window

Looking at the lush countryside

That surrounds your house

A horse is staring at me

As it always does when I visit you

Rebecca is wearing her red coat

And is going to the shop with Sacheverell

My apple pie is cooling on the table

We will eat it when Rebecca returns

With brown sugar and cream

It may be cool today

But July is such a kind month

Especially here in the borderlands

Later I will walk to the rivers curve

With its distant views of the hills

And toast your safe return

 

From Borderlands by G.W.O. Addleshaw 1941