Show IN HOPES Some years ago there lived on high In solitary state I A bachelor sooth twas I Pursuing thus my fate And as in sadness I gazed round And paced that lonely floor I longed not for the solid ground But just for one room more Twos then or not long after that My wish came more than true I moved into a modest flat Where I supported two That is to say until a third Came down through heavens doof And then my wife and I averred Wed like just one room more Today in deep felicity Within a house we dwell With number one and two and three And four and five as well We thought twas ample when we came Yet as I think it oer I find our plaint is just the same We need but one room more Perchance kind stranger as you read This ditty that I sing A tear bedims your eye you need With me the selfsame thing Then let us join our hands and pray That sometime when we soar Up to our mansions far away Well have that one room more Tom Masson in Truth I |