Then Said Another with a Long Drawn Sigh

Then Said Another with a Long Drawn Sigh

A poem by Omar Khayyam with a cartoon of a glamourous woman and an airman in the style of Percy Prune. The airman is sitting on a chair, smoking a pipe, beer glass in hand, feet on desk with a ringing phone.
On the reverse are about 22 handwritten comments and signatures.

One double sided printed card with handwritten annotations

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[caricature drawing of a woman]

Then said another with a long drawn sigh,
My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry:
But, fill me with the old familiar juice
Methinks I might recover by-and-bye!

OMAR KHAYAM

[caricature drawing of an airman leaning back in his chair with his feet on the desk, smoking a pipe with a pint of beer in his hand.]

Audrey Tilley

[page break]

Best of luck & (Semper in excretia) [indechiperable] (ten yrs to do)

[Deleted line]
[Deleted line] not nice
El placer
Es en el hacer
Pero no gusta a mi pecho
El pensamiento del haber ħecho.
X the poet his mark

Le jour, la nuit, toujours
Par semaine, par mois par an
Nous pensons toujours a toi
Joan and Frank.
xxxxxx

9
1
Just a few lines
With love from
Dickie

I too hereon my pen will park
With all my love I leave
my mark
- x x
Your David

Ap boet tick Memsahib
Am chobá goora Sahib
Long may your lum reek
D Brown

Sopiss good Gluck Joan

Another bad acquaintance
(Willie.)

From Joe to Jo
Well what d’you know?
Joe Judge

You too can get your F.P. Jo.
Peter
x2yz – bx + x

A Black as usual
From your “bitter” half
Denis Lucy

Of all the girls that I have met
José is the best yet
Leslie E. Sturgess

Bist du óber dem hóren im bier
“THE HAGGIS”

Jo
Gee but you’re purty
What’s your name?
June
X

Roses red & violets blue
A BSP is good for you
Jock Ewen

Lots of Love from
The Kodak King
Johnny

Of all that one should care to fathom, “J”
Was never deep in anything but – WINE
Mark Wilson

Here’s to it, and to it again
If you ever get to it,
And don’t do it
May you never get to it to do it again
John & Jenufer

Lots of Love
Half Pint Harry Beer
xxx

a p Your face is your fortune
If you have a good figure

Hervey Jamesse

Please come back now Flak [inserted] X [/inserted]

Lang may your lum reek
(Translation please!)
J. V. White

[Drawing of a phone]
Guess who !?
Frank E. Winch

James Kenneth Kernahan

? [Drawing of Goofy dog] nat