A Gentleman's London, Episode Six: Huntsman
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THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins". - And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."
There is a great curve in the words;
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Slicing, violently, into an overgrown
thicket and revealing what survived
and grew, voluptuously, beneath the dirt.
And this gives out a light few would divine.
Here in the mainstream, we are dogged marchers
en masse, straight-talking, set on red routes,
to the very ends of the earth! While you move
freely, easily, inside your well-rounded world.
Anon:
ReplyDelete"The new world is all less fair than the old world it mocks."
This quote comes from one who advocated blood sports; oh tally ho old chap...........
ReplyDelete"Blood sports" or "country pursuits": it depends upon your point of view.
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