The Chippies Request

[Dennis Millard]

I don't know if this is the righr place to put this- no suggestions please_ but here goes.

[wheelinround]

This might be easier Dennis hope you don't mind

Great Verse Dennis

THE CHIPPY’S LAMENT

Ash and beech and oak and lime,
I’ve worked most timbers in my time.
Morticed, dovetailed, mitred ends,
Coves and mouldings, curves and bends.

Sturdy frames all screwed and halved,
Or scrolled and pierced and neatly carved.
Finials for someone’s bed,
Turned plates and bowls to hold ones bread..

I’ve sawn and planed and chipped and drilled,
And glued and screwed and stained and filled.
With every type of finish toiled,
Limed and polished, painted, oiled.

And when the time comes, as it will,
When I can’t hold a plane or drill,
And hands can’t follow head or heart,
And joints once strong, now fall apart,

Then take these aching bones of mine,
And lay them down in polished pine,
And ask the Master Craftsman, please,
If I might rest beneath his trees.

--------oOo-------©DFM07.

[Bluegum]

Good read there guy's really great.

[Toyboy]

Well written and very nice.
It conjures up images I have of some old woodies I have known who have passed on to the big workshop.