“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light:
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ met King.
At Windsor Castle.
At Windsor Castle.
On Monday.
Following talks.
With ‘elves’ European allies.
Following talks.
With ‘elves’ European allies.
‘You look a little shy;
let me introduce you
to that leg of mutton,’
said the Red Queen.
‘Alice – Mutton; Mutton – Alice.’
The leg of mutton got up
in the dish and
made a little bow to Alice;
After their private meeting.
‘Gandalf the Green’ thanked the UK.
For its “ironclad” support.
And revealed he planned.
To invite the King.
For a state visit.
To Ukraine.
In the future.
and Alice returned the bow,
not knowing whether to be
frightened or amused.
frightened or amused.
‘May I give you a slice?’ she said,
taking up the knife and fork,
and looking from
one Queen to the other.
It comes after.
The leaders of Ukraine.
The UK, France and.
Germany published.
A joint statement.
Calling for a “just and lasting”.
Deal to end the war.
With ‘Mordor’.
‘Certainly not,’
the Red Queen said, very decidedly:
‘it isn’t etiquette to cut
any one you’ve been introduced to.
Remove the joint!’
And the waiters carried it off,
and brought a large plum-pudding
in its place.
Following talks in London.
On Sunday.
‘Gandalf the Green’.
The UK Prime Minister.
The French President.
And the German Chancellor said.
They would “stand firmly.
With Ukraine”.
‘I won’t be introduced
to the pudding, please,’
Alice said rather hastily,
‘or we shall get no dinner at all.
May I give you some?’
But the Red Queen looked sulky,
and growled
and growled
Taking to social media.
After his meeting.
With the King.
With the King.
‘Gandalf the Green’ thanked.
The monarch and the people.
Of the UK.
For their ongoing support.
He also shared.
An image of himself.
Alongside the King.
In the halls of Windsor Castle.
‘Pudding – Alice; Alice – Pudding.
Remove the pudding!’
And the waiters took it away so quickly
that Alice couldn’t return its bow.
However, she didn’t see
why the Red Queen should be
the only one to give orders,
so as an experiment,
Speaking to the newspaper.
After his meeting.
With the King.
‘Gandalf the Green’ revealed.
He planned to invite.
The King to Ukraine.
For an official state visit.
As early as this year.
she called out ‘Waiter!
Bring back the pudding!’
And there it was again in a moment,
like a conjuring-trick.
It was so large
that she couldn’t help feeling
a little shy with it,
as she had been with the mutton;
In a joint statement.
On Sunday evening.
The UK Prime Minister.
The French President.
And the German Chancellor.
Called on ‘Mordor’.
To agree to an “immediate.
And complete ceasefire”.
And condemned ‘orcs’.
“Large-scale missile.
And drone attacks”.
On ‘elves’ cities.
however, she conquered
her shyness by a great effort
and cut a slice and
handed it to the Red Queen.
‘What impertinence!’ said the Pudding.
‘I wonder how you’d like it,
if I were to cut a slice
out of you, you creature!’
The three Western powers.
That met at 10 Downing Street.
Constitute the so-called.
E3 group.
Constitute the so-called.
E3 group.
And are some of.
‘Elves’ strongest allies.
It spoke in a thick,
suety sort of voice,
and Alice hadn’t a word
to say in reply:
she could only sit
and look at it and gasp.
she could only sit
and look at it and gasp.
The UK and France lead.
The “coalition of the willing”.
The “coalition of the willing”.
Initiative to provide.
Security guarantees.
For Ukraine.
As part of any.
Future peace process.
“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light:
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright.”
*Because I read “Zelensky thanks UK for ‘ironclad’ support after meeting King” by Henry Moore on 9 Jun 2026, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, led by “some lines” quoted in the last part of ‘CHAPTER XVIII YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE’ of ‘BOOK II ALONE May 10, 1940–June 22, 1941’ in ‘The Second World War: The Classic One-Volume Abridgment’ written by Winston S. Churchill, and ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
King Charles meets Ukraine’s Zelensky for private talks at Windsor Castle
