I am currently serving in a submarine

It is a hazardous occupation

And before each voyage

I am gifted a book of poetry

By my loving sisters Anne and Jayne

My most recent gift was

The Works of Tennyson

Where inside I found the following dedication

Presented to David Willie
On his 8th Birthday
Nov 27th 1895
By his dear Dada

This tells me that young David

Was born in the same year

As Rupert Brooke

I wonder what happened

To this poetry loving boy

Yet never even in his wildest dreams

Would he have imagined

That his humble birthday gift

Would now be my only companion

Deep under these dark and mysterious seas