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It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Their knickers are made of crepe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python,
Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with head of bison.
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Humorous as it may be with regards to Class and social mores, flirtations with theosophy etc., one is brought up with a start... the realization that this was written in 1937 and, the more specific social unrest in Spain and Germany... the fall of the glass is unstoppable!
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7/29/2025 4:24:11 AM # 1.0.0
I have never liked bagpipes at all. I think that Macneice uses too many colloquial words here- ' glass', '' etc. He wrote much better poems than this one.