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Paul's smart in blazer, tie.
We wait by the wych elm
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Pauls was a shop in Jarrow where everyone bought their school uniforms for Secondary School. Its long gone. The Latin quote is from St Paul, and means roughly Gods love spurs us on. It was our school moto. Thank you.
Probably one of the most interesting poems I have read on PH, full of reminiscent detail described in fine quatrains. Bonnefoy would have liked this. It is his territory too. Definitely one to read again and again so in my favourite poems' list it goes. Tom Billsborough