The Queen be a lady in every sense of the word

She's attractive and gracious and only is heard

- From, when something wonderful or horrible's 

- Happened, like a fire in Windsor Castle's shell



It began high up on the library floor with flame

No doubt by a careless smoker who's to blame

Messing with cleaning fluids whilst with fag lit

I'm surprised they're even allowed to in the Brit



Royal home second only to Buckingham Palace

The place where Lady Di lived before being Alice

You know - the woman who doesn't live here anymore

Ain't that the truth? - and we all now know that score



Then we heard from her occasionally during that time

But very seldom did it have anything to do with Di's climb

To the very utmost top of Society's Royal Social Elite 

For Lady Di - this was an extremely well-achieved feat



And then to have it all squashed in just a short dash

Because she'd not learned tolerance, couldn't match

The Queen's ability to accept and overlook some things

Which Prince Philip brought to the fore yesterday with sting



On the occasion of the Royal Couple's fiftieth wedding anniversary

A fantastic accomplishment for any couple who've made it to this day

As all couples who've shared half-a-century together well knows

But all the moreso for the Queen Bee who's had to go through so



Much more than any monarch should need to in one long life

For this butterfly has had it all dumped on her - so much strife

Dealing with broken marriages of sister, daughter, two sons

She just had to keep hers together to show it could be done



I am so proud of the Queen - she's got it all wrapped up tight

A splendid woman who's had to grin and bear it all these nights

And days, over the past 50 years ... so much has happened to her

Bombings at hotels where she was staying, could've been interred



Close friends like Lord Mountbatten blown to pieces in a boat

She just gritted her teeth and went on - never once did she gloat

I'm so glad she had a ceremony yesterday to celebrate her fifty

I wish I could be so dignified and proud - to me, it's just so nifty



Christopher W. Thomas

6pm Friday 11/21/97