Alcorn's Tale of Miss Agnes B. and Ivy Lee

John Alcorn — last song on Haunted is a ballad of two women loved by the same sailor who in the course of the song comes and goes leaving our protagonists to their routines. It begins enchantingly …

Miss Agnes B. and Ivy Lee
They are two floors below
They eat Peek Freans and toast at tea
And watch their violets grow.

And the sailer having come and gone, the song ends …

Miss Agnes B. and Ivy Lee
They live two floors below
They look at pictures of the sea
And know they'll never go.

And aptly the song is called "Pictures of the Sea". The sailor is incidental.

And so for day 1898
23.02.2012