Now Archie is at play.
All day and every day
He’s free to run and fall.
That says it all
Archie is free
Not so we.
10 August 2022, The Tablet
Now Archie is at play, all day and every day
The Tablet poem – for Archie’s parents
A person lights candles outside the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, east London, following the death of 12 year old Archie Battersbee.
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