To my friend of the coast 1947 – 48

Dorothy Sansom

from

Winifred of Bath (Winnie)

not without honours shall my days be sun.

not yet without a boast shall end,

for I was Shakespeare’s countryman

and were you not my friend?

Xmas 1955

[NB. The lines of poetry are from G.K. Chesterton’s Autobiography, Chapter 14: Portrait of a Friend. WG]