Quotation by Sir John Betjeman

Down came the hairy talons
and horrible poison blade
And none of the garden noticed
that fizzing, hopeless fight.
Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), British poet, broadcaster, writer on architecture. The Cottage Hospital (l. 21–24). . .

The Collected Poems of John Betjeman. Earl of Birkenhead, ed. (4th ed., 1979; reissued 1990) John É Murray.
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