Bounty
'Two members of the Royal Family have sent gifts to an East End church hostel for reforming prostitutes. Princess Margaret has sent a travelling clock. . .' Daily Mirror.
Gertie, Edna, Lil, Marlene, Keep your conversation clean. Listen to that warning tock. Princess Margaret's sent a clock.
Claudine, late of Brewer Street, Blushes at the royal treat.
(Crusty cynic, do not mock !) Princess Margaret's sent a clock.
Soho ladies, Park Lane queens, This is what redemption means. Purl one, plain one—look, a sock ! Time it by Her Highness' clock.
Ethel, Lana, Linda, Hetta, Knitting for your health is better, Now that you, repentant whore, lodge Where Princess Margaret's sent a horldge.
In its leather case it stands, Holding out its little hands.
Though your journey's on the rocks, Fallen girls get travelling clocks.
Time to you was always short, Time on trottoir. time in court. Time now deals its final knock. Princess Margaret's sent a clock.
JOHN COI %I 4r4
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