A constant source of worriment was Egbert van der Pyes,
Who drove his poor distracted Mum to premature demise.
The archetypal clumsy child was infant Egbert’s style,
With spills and thrills and accidents recorded in his file.
There was in everything he did, an ominous portent,
As any simple task became a perilous event.
At Sunday school he was the cause of catastrophic blaze,
As during Candlemas with flaming orange God was praised.
With violin, whilst learning how to play and to compose,
He managed to embed his bow right up his teacher's nose.
As any simple task became a perilous event.
At Sunday school he was the cause of catastrophic blaze,
As during Candlemas with flaming orange God was praised.
With violin, whilst learning how to play and to compose,
He managed to embed his bow right up his teacher's nose.
And at an exhibition of some prehistoric bones,
Young Egbert tripped, to bring down allosaurus on his own.
All through his life he stumbled at the edge of the abyss,
As chaos reigned about him, with bad luck his nemesis.
And yet, in truth, we have to note that through all this travail,
Our Egbert came out quite unscathed, to live all fit and hale,
Beyond the year three score and ten until, with hair all white,
He passed away aged ninety nine quite peacefully at night.
JH
Copyright © 2012 Jonathan Humble
All through his life he stumbled at the edge of the abyss,
As chaos reigned about him, with bad luck his nemesis.
And yet, in truth, we have to note that through all this travail,
Our Egbert came out quite unscathed, to live all fit and hale,
Beyond the year three score and ten until, with hair all white,
He passed away aged ninety nine quite peacefully at night.
Copyright © 2012 Jonathan Humble