Quote #4
I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the clubfooted ghoul come near me.
More from Louis MacNeice
- Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books wi…
- I am not yet born; forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, …
- It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour …
- O early one morning I walked out like Agag, Early one morning to walk through the fire Dodging the pythons that leaked on the pavements Wit…
- It's no go the Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.
- At which there arose from a wound in the asphalt, His big wig a-smoulder, Sir Christopher Wren Saying: 'Let them make hay of the streets of…