"Restored to Life"
 

Silent it stood in the corner

Lifeless its cogs and its wheels

Mother sits sorrowful – weeping

No one can tell how she feels

 

The washing machine has broken

The sobbing is heard from afar

But hope in her breast now has woken

At the sound of repairman’s old car

 

The twist of a dexterous spanner

Adjustment or two of a screw

The cost – just seven and a tanner

The washing machine is like new.

by William Ashton

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