Quotation by Noël Coward

In Rangoon the heat of noon
Is just what the natives shun.
They put their Scotch or rye down
And lie down.
Noël Coward (1899–1973), British poet. Mad Dogs and Englishmen (l. 37–40). . .

Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company.
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