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NAN
No likenesses of poets stand
Among the knick-knacks in her room;
No hairy fiddler in a frame
Presents his late or early bloom.
Two Californian Stars of Film
Are featured on the mantelpiece,
Together with a statuette
From either Italy or Greece.
Among the knick-knacks in her room;
No hairy fiddler in a frame
Presents his late or early bloom.
Two Californian Stars of Film
Are featured on the mantelpiece,
Together with a statuette
From either Italy or Greece.
Upon a table, near a pot
Of aromatic somethingness,
A Wilfred, who is also Rhodes,
Is dapper in civilian dress;
And close beside a metal group
Of pigeons, geese, and various dogs
Her hero—Herbert Sutcliffe—smiles
His Century-smile in cricket togs.
Of aromatic somethingness,
A Wilfred, who is also Rhodes,
Is dapper in civilian dress;
And close beside a metal group
Of pigeons, geese, and various dogs
Her hero—Herbert Sutcliffe—smiles
His Century-smile in cricket togs.
She, Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred,
Must feed on joy or suffer bane
When rival Roses take the field
In narky mood at Bramall Lane.
Her colour then is quick to tell
How many tints her flesh can wear,
And when a Six goes soaring by
She flushes to her throat and hair
Must feed on joy or suffer bane
When rival Roses take the field
In narky mood at Bramall Lane.
Her colour then is quick to tell
How many tints her flesh can wear,
And when a Six goes soaring by
She flushes to her throat and hair
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If Herbert gives the brawny men
Of Lancashire but little rest,
This girl is happier than a thrush
With children underneath her breast;
But should the tragic oval squat
Behind his number on the Board
Her patriotic eyes confuse
The figures of the total scored.
Of Lancashire but little rest,
This girl is happier than a thrush
With children underneath her breast;
But should the tragic oval squat
Behind his number on the Board
Her patriotic eyes confuse
The figures of the total scored.
When Nan goes home at evenfall
And limply blunders to a seat,
Her mother and her sisters know
Their shire is threatened with defeat.
How should a dish of scrambled eggs
Relieve her gloom? Since hope has fled
Beyond a muffin's help, she takes
Her bruise and shattered pride to bed.
And limply blunders to a seat,
Her mother and her sisters know
Their shire is threatened with defeat.
How should a dish of scrambled eggs
Relieve her gloom? Since hope has fled
Beyond a muffin's help, she takes
Her bruise and shattered pride to bed.
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