Sir John Betjeman

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    Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,
    Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun,
    What strenuous singles we played after tea,
    We in the tournament—you against me!
    Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    What a treat to hear Thy Word
    Where the bones of leading statesmen,
    Have so often been interred.
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)