The Famous Six

a fantasy of a return to childhood

I have need to be at Smuggler's Top       
to be my sixth of Blyton's Famous Five,
I'll book the sleeper coz it often stopped     
by my bed, as it steamed down to St Ives...     
     
There, I'll snuggle down in Enid's safe world     
with Julian, Anne and Timmy the dog,
and Dick and George (who's a jolly smart girl)     
as our adventures keep us all agog... 
     
For no law can force me to be adult     
I shall cast off hard travails of this age,
and in my simplemindedness exult     
in turning back to an earlier page...     
   
Or, I might open my Noddy book and     
Go, hand in hand with him back to, Toyland...