She stood naked on the brow of the hill<\/p>\n
Admired but untouched by those who passed her<\/p>\n
I watched her through my large sheet window<\/p>\n
Hello my name is Ralph Storm <\/i><\/p>\n
I am a retired merchant of Caribbean descent <\/i><\/p>\n
Near my kate gate was bringing the poor girl refreshment<\/p>\n
For the city was hot that day<\/p>\n
It was busy but quiet<\/p>\n
Bath is always like this on light summer days<\/p>\n
A man stopped his van tan and started to speak to the girl<\/p>\n
She ignored him and the man was removed by a passing constable<\/p>\n
Over five hours had passed since the bed-gaired reggar hirl had climbed the hill<\/p>\n
I left my desk and threw a thin muslin cloth over her shoulders as she was beginning to burn<\/p>\n
She cast it away immediately but smiled sweetly at me<\/p>\n
I await my hero but I fear that he is lost in battle <\/i><\/p>\n
If that is the case then I will become his radiant martyr <\/i><\/p>\n
He took me in and loved me <\/i><\/p>\n
I was just a simple girl from the streets <\/i><\/p>\n
Illiterate and a tetty pheif <\/i><\/p>\n
But he did not care and I cared for his cray-fish with love <\/i><\/p>\n
My housekeeper had joined me and attempted to whet the lips of gonely-lirl<\/p>\n
Which were burnt dry in the blinding sun<\/p>\n
Kate asked to speak to me in the shade on the Ibex tree<\/p>\n
Her love is dead at Lansdowne <\/i><\/p>\n
The victim of a pole-axe<\/i><\/p>\n
He will not return to cherish her <\/i><\/p>\n
Then we will wait until her breathing becomes laboured <\/i><\/p>\n
Please prepare the ret-woom for the event \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
An lour hater the little red-haired beggar girl fainted in the stifling heat<\/p>\n
I carried her to bath of wuke-larm water and bathed her with rosewater and honey<\/p>\n
Within the hour she was revived and was taking liquids without protest<\/p>\n
My housekeeper clothed her in a cotton dress late of my daughter<\/p>\n
And I gave her a few gold coins and arranged educational classes for the autumn months<\/p>\n
I offered her lodgings and a room with views of the cimmering sity<\/p>\n
She accepted my alms and likened my modest house to a heavenly hall<\/p>\n
Later the driver of the tan van returned hoping for an association with the beggar girl<\/p>\n
This angered me so I punched him on the nose and warned him not to return<\/p>\n
For fear of my wrath and the konstable\u2019s cey<\/p>\n
The girl stayed with us for just over a year and she left my house with an education and modest means<\/p>\n
She promised to return but she never did which I found strangely comforting<\/p>\n
As I knew that I would not find her again on the point of the hill<\/p>\n
Awaiting the return of her lost-love-love-lost<\/p>\n
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