Dear Santa (from William Topaz McGonagall)
...and this:
Ho! Though I grow now to be an aged soul
Amidst life's random chances... still, control
Over mishaps is what I'd like to get:
So Santa, please, bring me a wee train set...
With bridges I can build, and make fall down;
And coaches (blazoned with the Royal Crown);
And real steam; smoke, emitted in a jet;
Oh Santa, please, bring me a wee train set!
Or not so wee. The Forth Bridge I'd aspire
To add, as well as Tay. Then I'd require
A larger home as well, to hold it all, and yet...
I would so like to own a (large) train set!
So Santa maybe what I ought to ask
(If it is not too grand or large a task;
Since models would my appetite just whet)
Is all Scotland, and its full-size train set!
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