Tin Wedding Whistle

 Though you know it anyhow 
Listen to me, darling, now, 
Proving what I need not prove 
How I know I love you, love.
 
Near and far, near and far, 
I am happy where you are; 
Likewise I have never larnt 
How to be it where you aren't.
 
Far and wide, far and wide, 
I can walk with you beside; 
Furthermore, I tell you what, 
I sit and sulk where you are not.
 
Visitors remark my frown 
Where you're upstairs and I am down, 
Yes, and I'm afraid I pout 
When I'm indoors and you are out; 
But how contentedly I view 
Any room containing you.
 
In fact I care not where you be, 
Just as long as it's with me.
 
In all your absences I glimpse 
Fire and flood and trolls and imps.
 
Is your train a minute slothful? 
I goad the stationmaster wrothful.
 
When with friends to bridge you drive 
I never know if you're alive, 
And when you linger late in shops 
I long to telephone the cops.
 
Yet how worth the waiting for, 
To see you coming through the door.
 
Somehow, I can be complacent 
Never but with you adjacent.
 
Near and far, near and far, 
I am happy where you are; 
Likewise I have never larnt 
How to be it where you aren't.
 
Then grudge me not my fond endeavor, 
To hold you in my sight forever; 
Let none, not even you, disparage 
Such a valid reason for a marriage.

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