This child cannot remember sleeping anywhere but in
a cave. She has her own double deck bunk with wire netting
for springs.
Children keep right on playing
in Dover’s streets - a long-range shell could wipe
out this happy group.
The popular song about Dover and its absentee bluebirds
says “There’ll
be love and laughter… when the world is free.”
These boys and girls smile in the midst of terror. Some
of them, once evacuated, have returned to take their chances
on familiar sidewalks.
In his cave, Blitz Baby is safe
from shell and bomb.
Dover mothers like the security of 100 feet of rock above
their children. Here a child is tucked in to a “duration”
bed.
