How oft the silent sound of martins heard
Over the green leaved trees as day departs
Will bring the memory of an annual day.
Did we perhaps embark without a word
Or just imagine the beating of hearts
In the fine room set apart for the fray?
Meeting with others, for a common cause
Inside the one firm now long departed,
Such was the deep tremor of the chords which
Spoke of tax, of people and of purpose
That we all expressed with uplifted head
Hopes far better than simply to enrich.
E’en so now, though our paths are far away,
Each memory rings as if but yesterday.

Another year, another day away from the office

In February’s cold dark dank moonlit morn
See, a fiery Hispanic branch was born
A model of excellence to all who were torn,
Bluebells arose as she embraced the storm,
Exhaling canephoras in the twilight of dawn,
Languidly somnulant upon the velvet lawn.

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Golden, as the sun rising in the east,
Another day to be filled with festive feast
Year added unto year, it behoveth me to say,
Like Venus in her orb and triumphal array
Enhancing to kith and kindred all
Every service and every loving call.
Did ere such kindness rest?
Were any mother ‘ere so blest?
As thine, and thou, whose blessed memory
Ringeth out o’er years gone by,
Delighting all who in her shadow rest
So that she shall be forever blest.

In days such as these
Some stress (if you please!)
Always abounding in bliss.
But I know what is
Enough of their ill
Lovely coffee will give a us thrill

Let not the winter’s ragged hand deface
In thee the hope of warmer days
For see proud-pied April doth efface
The harshest work of winter’s cold gaze,
So fields and beds, once bare on earth,
Bring forth, as if from stone, their verdure
Which as with great contended mirth
Doth leap and laugh as winter’s ardour
Gives way to spring wherein the birds shall sing
And blossom fling their beauties o’er the clades
Of trees in green of every hue, which ring
In silence throughout the lustrous glades.
So at the end of thy seven by seven be still
And accept this verse the expression of my good will