Here's an odd coincidence. Today I opened up Walt Kelly's "Pogo's Sunday Punch," from 1957, meaning to transcribe several poems for the Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs thread, and I found one poem about Princess Margaret.

"Pogo" was an American comic strip, and before "Doonesbury," it was probably our most politically satirical one. This poem, however, isn't satire. It is accompanied by cartoons of the comic strip's animal characters, but in this case, the animals look rather sad. The cartoons don't portray the princess herself, but rather her American fans.

TO PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE (Walt Kelly, 1957)

The last photograph and a half of you,
Over four million miles of sea,
Broke a heart already unsteady
Over six million miles of sea.

We've suffered,
We've suffered much with you,
Over nine million miles of sea (more or less)
None the less we are ready
Over ten million miles of sea.

With the old and the new
And the borrowed and blue
Over twelve million miles of sea,
We'd give up the throne
(Had we one of our own)
And invite the family to tea.

But what would we do with the children?
And what would we do with the sea?
We'd really no notion
There was so much Ocean.
Love and kisses, the Mrs. and me.