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Thread #145932   Message #3378876
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
19-Jul-12 - 04:06 PM
Thread Name: Review: Grumpy British Folkies part 273
Subject: RE: Review: Grumpy British Folkies part 273
'another place'

Does he mean the house of Lords...?

When this skirmish of ideas was at its height, some lines of Auden were just beyond my reach to quote, but I found the book today - its from a poem called 'A Communist To Others'


You're thinking us a nasty sight;
Yes, we are poisoned, you are right,
    Not even clean;
We do not know how to behave
We are not beautiful or brave
You would not pick our sort to save
    Your first fifteen.

Yes, that's now English folk Music leaves me feeling quite a lot of the time.