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wrotepoetry.  \nOn many occasions family members wouldglance across to see him taking notes of thesituation:family parties;new births;Sundaywalks;even shopping for clothes!We make noapology for the selection of poems chosen forthis book;although personal they will resonatewith many readers.A seriously creative thinker with a great sense of fun this devoutly religiousman accepted ageing in a way many do not.Thelasting relationship he shared with Peggie,his‘dear heart'for a few weeks short of 70 yearsis celebrated in many of his poems.We hopeyou agree and enjoy reading and rereading thisselection.  \nThe title of this collection is the first line of thelast poem John ever wrote.  \nHe picked up his pen to writebut forgot what he wanted to sayso he simply wrote “every dayI love you more,can I doteon you,will you let me ber lover,so everyone can see?”  \nHe picked up his pen to write...  \nTwenty more poemsbJOHN BATE  \nScottish Poetry Library  \n3.ha大  \n7692  \n2011012020  \nFirst published 2018  \nPrinted in Englandby Martins the Printers,Berwick-upon-Tweed  \nAll rights reserved  \nJohn Bate,2018  \nISBN 978-1-9998312-4-0  \nSCOTTISH POETRYLIBRARY  \nay  es  \n5 Crichton's Close  \nEdinburgh EH88DT  \nYel 01315572876  \n# An Introduction\n\nONCE UPON A TIME LONG AGO,I caught a train at Newcastlewith my father and mother that inched slowly up the eastcoast of what remained of England and then low-landScotland until it reached Dundee.To give a sense of howlong ago this was,the train was pulled by a steam loco;my guess is the late'50s,when I was perhaps seven.Whenwe arrived,we travelled on by road to a place I nowknow was Broughty Ferry and an old house and gardenby the water.It was a wild windy night,dark and cold.Iremember being welcomed by a kind man and womanand an alarmingly large group of children and then beingput to bed in a dark room with a skylight,where I failedto get off to sleep.The main problem was an intermittenttapping and a hyperactive imagination,which coupledwith the strange house and the sound of the wind,ledme to cry out in fear.My father came to investigate withthe man of the house,who swiftly identified the noise:a branch of the tree dancing in the wind against theskylight.The man came to me to explain:'It's just the oldtree,'he said,'but it's all right,it's a friendly old tree.'Andhe smiled in a way that to me became characteristic ofthe man,opened the skylight to break off the end of thebranch;then the two friends went away to do adult thingsdownstairs and at last I fell asleep.  \nThis is my earliest memory of John Bate.  \nHe and my father Sid Chaplin were by then old anddear friends,and so it remained until my father's deathin 1986.They met during the Second World War whenmy dad was a pitman at Dean and Chapter Colliery atFerryhill in County Durham and Private John Bate wasdirected to work at a Pow camp at nearby WindlestoneHall,ancestral home of the Eden family and birthplaceof the then Foreign 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