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( Feel free to set to music. )

Remembrance: Old Soldiers at the Cenotaph

The Bath chair or the Zimmer frame,
The agèd, gnarled, claw-like hand:
Was it to this that heroes came
In England’s green and pleasant land?

Do generations give just due
To those who faced the direst foe:
The Senior Service and the Few,
The BEF of long ago?

Burma - (Blenheim, Ramillies -),
The Mons Canal, El Alamein,
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... upon the death of the dog, Lennox:

To the abject and contemptible creatures of the Belfast City Council, Northern Ireland, upon the occasion of the destruction of the dog, Lennox, and in the spirit of Yeats and GKC.

( We will remember them. )

Am writing. BE YE WARNED AND TITTER YE NOT.

Ad interim, here:

A Scillonian Shanty

Weeeeeeeeee -
    LEFT our wives on Garrison wall
In the isles of our birth:
Bound, bound, bound, lads, away-o!

There’s fathoms over garden lands
That once were of earth;
We’re bound, lads, bound, bound away-o;

Sea…
    ROCKET and wall pennyworth
And haul away home!
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He’s wrong about damned near everything.

But dear God I’d shag Owen Sheers.

And doesn’t he make a lovely Adult Harry Potter?

( Humour? Me? )