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Some seals are applied to signatures and such Ratifying the documents of abbots and kings Applied with dignity, a royal touch From carven images or profiled rings And then there are seals as toilet bowl rings Beneath the throne, a regal crown of wax One of the kingdom’s many needful things Restraining with dignity certain personal acts The throne upon which His Majesty, um, sits Unsealed it came, and gave the plumber royal fits
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Jul 9, 2019
Jul 9, 2019 at 3:50 PM UTC
The King's Royal Wax Seal - Adventures in Plumbing
Some seals are applied to signatures and such Ratifying the documents of abbots and kings Applied with dignity, a royal touch From carven images or profiled rings And then there are seals as toilet bowl rings Beneath the throne, a regal crown of wax One of the kingdom’s many needful things Restraining with dignity certain personal acts The throne upon which His Majesty, um, sits Unsealed it came, and gave the plumber royal fits
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is: Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel. Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.
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Jul 9, 2019
Jul 9, 2019 at 3:50 PM UTC
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