A walk on the Hill by Malcolm Wakeman

A walk on the Hill . The air is still on Malvern Hill I walk above the cloud Colwall and Welland and hidden now By a whitened dampened shroud I'm above The Chase Inn now Away from Malvern town " Right side of the hill" they say You'll see by at sundown And in The Chase last orders On this Trafalgar day They raise a glass to Nelson Before they're on their way Dr Ron and Nigel,young Sam behind the bar Toast the might of empire in,a Kiplinesque review While in Nigel's mental keyboard  Elgar's ' Enigma ' is running through And down at Colwall station The Paddington's on time And in The Colwall Park Hotel Marie is drinking wine She drinks so much of it these days It wipes away the fear Of bitter,bitter loneliness As cold death draws ever near In love she wasn't fortunate And chance was cruel it's true Although she had her moments they are now a hazy view Just like the shroud surrounding Malverns ancient hill Malcolm Wakeman 09/04/2012