Betty-Belle Randall was walking by the River Thames<\/p>\n
In her right hand there was a bloodstained handkerchief<\/p>\n
Viola Gresham<\/p>\n
Was in her hotel room<\/p>\n
Resting<\/p>\n
For she had travelled far<\/p>\n
Betty-Belle was in what was once<\/p>\n
The Pool of London<\/p>\n
She was sitting under a sycamore tree<\/p>\n
On a scruffy wooden bench<\/p>\n
And was studying the bloodied silk handkerchief<\/p>\n
Viola had given her the handkerchief when they landed in Rome<\/p>\n
As well as a flight ticket to London<\/p>\n
These were the bloody tears of Christ\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Who wept when upon the cross<\/em><\/p>\n Betty-Belle repeated to herself<\/p>\n Time and time again<\/p>\n The whole story was fantastic<\/p>\n But she believed Viola<\/p>\n There was no reason not to<\/p>\n Betty-Belle let the tip of her tongue<\/p>\n Touch the bloody stain<\/p>\n It tasted of salt<\/p>\n This shocked her as she had expected it to taste of blood<\/p>\n In Augusta her parents were beginning to worry about her<\/p>\n The trip to London was so out of character<\/p>\n As Betty-Belle was a dutiful daughter<\/p>\n But they knew that she would come to no harm<\/p>\n As Jesus would look after her<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Betty-Belle Randall was walking by the River Thames In her right hand there was a bloodstained handkerchief Viola Gresham Was in her hotel room Resting For she had travelled far Betty-Belle was in what was once The Pool of London She was sitting under a sycamore tree On a scruffy wooden bench And was studying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}