Alec Derwent Hope

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    quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
    Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907)

    Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
    He took her in his arms and there and then
    Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
    Began in joy to found the breed of men.
    —Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907)

    quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
    Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907)

    Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
    He took her in his arms and there and then
    Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
    Began in joy to found the breed of men.
    —Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907)

    I hope to see London once ere I die.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)