Sir John Carling

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    “Lord, reserve for me a crown,
    And do not let my shares go down.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “Fight on for Scottland and Saint Andrew
    Till you heare my whistle blowe.”
    —Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton.

    EnSB. English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)

    “And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
    That dying chose the living world for text
    And never could have rested in the tomb
    But that, long travelling, he had come
    Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
    In a most desolate stony place....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)