Pete's Singularity

Singularity
I Can Fly
Depression
Cutty Sark
Soyuz II
Shuttle
Quasar
Video
Paths of Glory
King John's Walk
Winner
Absent Friends
Night Shift
Kiwi
Buzz Off
Camping
Southend On Sea
Lydiard
Ashdown Forest
Sunday
Tiger
South Atlantic '82
Summer Solstice
Quartz
Autumn
Winter Solstice
Christmas
Calendar Girl
Garden City
Gales Imminent
Halloween
Counting The Cost
Dearly Departed
Time To Go
All God's Children
The Spinning Gateway
Country Cousins
Thirty Days ...
I have never been to India
With all its teaming folk,
Nor ever been inside an egg,
Inside its gleaming yolk.
I've never been on Everest,
Or even Katmandu,
Nor Bombay, nor Alhalabad,
Nor eaten snake meat stew.

But the sound of hammered brass,
With mystic motives wrought,
Brings to life in the inner eye
All those scenes once caught
On celluloid in picture books,
And all those lessons taught,
In school, at home, at mother's knee,
And in wars our fathers fought.

Tigers, elephants, and sacred cows
Are in this boundless land,
Mountains, lakes, and forests bright
Are always close at hand,
And people, in their endless millions,
From the lowest to the grand,
However they may spend their life,
End up as so much band.