Dear little Lithuanian I do adore your dress. Your eyelashes are charming And excite me, I confess. But when I read your history, And learnt from whence you came, It filled me both with sadness And a little bit of shame.
© Michael Downes 2015
A new month is approaching and I intend
to keep to my self-imposed promise that I would display each month an image
relating to Fairlynch Museum.
Not just on my blog, but on our
smart new noticeboard, kindly provided by Honiton-based firm Duralife Windows.
Just as I was scratching my head about what to choose next, Sue Morgan, our
Toys, Dolls and Bears expert at Fairlynch kindly gave me some information about
a Lithuanian doll in the Museum’s collection.
I thought the story behind it was
so sad that I was moved to write the above poem – well, my friend Annie calls
my efforts doggerel – so, OK – ‘verse.’
Here’s the story, based on
information given by the donor, Miss Barbara Blathwayt, of Sunny Bank, East
Terrace in Budleigh Salterton.
“It was given to me b…