On Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday - Gifts Galore

On Her Majesty’s 90^th Birthday

Gifts Galore

Sound drums and trumpets, far and near!

And Let all Queen Elisabeth’s subjects loudly cheer!

And show by their actions that they revere,

Because she’s served them sixty three year!

All hail to the owner of corgis and Great Britain’s Queen!

Long may she live happy and serene!

And as this is now her ninetieth year,

I hope her subjects will show their loyalty without fear.

Therefore let all her subjects rejoice and sing,

Until they make the welkin ring;

And let young and old on this her birthday be glad,

And cry, “Long Live our Queen!” and don’t be sad.

After William Topaz McGonagall, the very Prince Charles of poets

Metre About Meters

The news that the Poet Laureate Glasgow’s own Carol Ann Duffy is to write about the demise of the gas meter in Britain made me think warmly of the bard of bad dear old Topaz. If McGonagall had been told to write about metre he would no doubt have composed an ode to the mechanics of rhythm and not the little rascals that cost us so much with the gas supplier these days.

Duffy said: “Gas and electricity meters have been a fixture under stairs and in cupboards for more than a hundred years, so it felt fitting to preserve their place in household history with a poem.

Well if a gas meter is worth a ditty then consider our fabulous Queen’s birthday giftware.

Ode to Our Elizabethan Age

To Mark the passing of the years we’ve lots of ideas for a lovely gift

It won’t be dear of course - as James Pirie is one noted for thrift

So if you want something for your very own palace

Try our beautiful engraved chalice

And if you like our monarch quite a lot

Mark the occasion with a tot

Or to her health you want to sup

Acquire a crystal loving cup

And you have strong patriotism to sate

Say it out loud and buy a plate