I wish you could have known Molly,
You’d have loved her, just as I did.
Her little smiling face, beaming at me
And tufts of red hair protruding in a blaze
From a’neath her mop cap.

Sweet dear Molly, rising at six
And taking my very breath away
As dawn breaks and we gazed together
From yon window and misty haze;
Molly’s love was always, on tap.

Oh how I wish you could have known Molly.
But Molly has gone now and rested
Upon the clouds with angels as her feet
Music so sweet, just as Molly would love
As we did at the piano, her on my lap

And our fingers entwined as we played the ivory keys
Together. Oh our tune, Molly, Molly sweet Molly,
MY sweet Molly. And miss her I do,
The rush of morning as she would rove
The house and the tickle of the rose upon the gap

My unbuttoned night shirt left my chest bared
And she would kiss my cheek and run
Away, playful and giggling, her splendour
In then morning sun was a miracle from above
To me; I wish you could have known Molly as I had…

Do I miss sweet Molly? Every single day passes
There is not a thought in mind

Or a tear welled upin my eye
When I think of sweet Molly’s laughter
That lit up my day to dusk from dawn.

Oh I wish you could have known Molly.
You would have fallen in love with her,
You could not help yourself, her beauty
And exquisite common nature
That commandeered your sense from whence she was born

Into this world that held so much hate
And bitterness but strived for a peace
No-one could assume nor find,
Not till Molly thrust herself upon life,
Upon MY life and secured each of my senses

With her childish laughter; that grin
Helen of Troy could not match
If she lived a thousand years
And a thousand years after…
Molly was my whole existence, lifetime
And I miss her so now that the fences

In badly need of maintenance, still
Painted the red that Molly dressed it as
To match her hair that I held close to me
So that Molly could be close to my heart
And I could drown in her love for me

That she showed so apparent, and I
Gave her my all, my life was hers
To do with how she pleased,

But she’d laugh and tell me we’d never part
And that I would drown in her love for me…

I wish you could have known Molly
And the blaze of red hair from a’neath her cap;
The giggles and girlish laughter
But Molly has gone away and the flowers I bring
I bring so that I may drown in her love for me,

The tiny headstone just reads “Here lies Molly,
A happy person who had a smile for all
And for her family who miss her so.. . “
Here laid my Molly, sweet, sweet Molly
I wish you have known Molly
You'd have loved her and
She’d have loved you

"taken by God to play with angels
and lie at His feet. Child of grace
aged 5 years and 7 months"

I wish you had known my Molly,
My sweet, sweet Molly.
You may have also drowned in her love
For me