The Visit

The Visit

Lilibet came to visit last week

To the capital city of Cork

Ground breaking whatever your clique

House of Lancaster, Fraser or York

               

English Market she’ll first navigate

Fresh produce of the highest repute

Founded seventeen eighty eight

Then off to Tyndall Institute

It’s a pity we weren’t at home.

You could have stayed to see City, Nil Satis.

Rejigged Donie Forde with a throne

Entry and Programme free gratis

A half time Corners Boys escort

To Horseshoe Bar could be tricky

Transporting you and your consort

For a Gin and Dubonnet with Ricky

Full time then you’d be airport bound

Our taxi man Bickle’s a surety

Be sure though and take off the crown

To get fast tracked through airport security

And as you return home with glee

Having made some new friends out of strangers

Pledge allegiance, Cork City F.C.

And leave off your promoted Park Rangers

A poem to mark the visit to Cork by Queen Elizabeth on May 20th 2011.

If only we'd been at home.