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14
A STRIKE
(April, 1926)
While at Chequers in the Chilterns,
Or in Downing's famous street,
Ministerial brains are solving
Crisis with the help of peat,
Let me join the thousands careless
In respect of coke and coal,
Having paid to watch Eleven
Plus Eleven bat and bowl:
Twenty-two heroic Strikers,
Off the Dole!
Or in Downing's famous street,
Ministerial brains are solving
Crisis with the help of peat,
Let me join the thousands careless
In respect of coke and coal,
Having paid to watch Eleven
Plus Eleven bat and bowl:
Twenty-two heroic Strikers,
Off the Dole!
Warmed by beams as truly brilliant
As the flood of light that shone
When the god in love with Leda
Floated falsely like a swan,
May the air be quick with freckles
For the faces round the Ring,
Bronzing all who watch Elevens
Fit for Homer's self to sing:
Twenty-two determined Strikers,
Each a King!
As the flood of light that shone
When the god in love with Leda
Floated falsely like a swan,
May the air be quick with freckles
For the faces round the Ring,
Bronzing all who watch Elevens
Fit for Homer's self to sing:
Twenty-two determined Strikers,
Each a King!
Since the pads are buckled neatly
On the nimble legs of Hobbs,
No one cares a tinker's byword
For the Statesman and his jobs.
Who has time for Men and Owners
Busy with their Ifs and Buts
Ending in a sudden shortage
Of convenient baker's nuts,
Now that Two-and-Twenty offer
Hooks and Cuts?
On the nimble legs of Hobbs,
No one cares a tinker's byword
For the Statesman and his jobs.
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Busy with their Ifs and Buts
Ending in a sudden shortage
Of convenient baker's nuts,
Now that Two-and-Twenty offer
Hooks and Cuts?
Bored by Capital and Labour,
Conference, snarling, venom, tricks,
England gaily thumps the Crisis
Over Cover-Point for Six!
Though at Chequers Stanley Baldwin's
Leg-before again to Coal,
Here, in Nottingham, the Captains
Toss a florin, bat or bowl:
Two imperialistic Strikers,
Off the Dole!
Conference, snarling, venom, tricks,
England gaily thumps the Crisis
Over Cover-Point for Six!
Though at Chequers Stanley Baldwin's
Leg-before again to Coal,
Here, in Nottingham, the Captains
Toss a florin, bat or bowl:
Two imperialistic Strikers,
Off the Dole!
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