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And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot -
But 'I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

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It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho!
Let Einstein be!' restored the status quo.

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Now there once was a lass, and a very pretty lass,
And she was an isotope's daughter

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God heard the embattled nations sing and shout
"Gott strafe England" and "God save the King!"
God this, God that, and God the other thing –
"Good God!" said God, "I've got my work cut out!"

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At last incapable of further harm,
The lewd forefathers of the village sleep.

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The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.

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Men were on earth while climates slowly swung. Fanning wide zones to heat and cold, and long Subsidence turned great continents to sea, And seas dried up, dried up interminably. Age after age; enormous seas were dried Amid wastes of land. And the last monster died.

J. C. Squire

J. C. Squire

J. C. Squire

Born: April 2, 1884

Died: December 20, 1958 (aged 74)

Bio: Sir John Collings Squire was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. His writings mostly discuss common experiences.

Known for:

If It Had Happened Otherwise (1931)
Poems: first series
Imaginary speeches
Tricks of the Trade (1917)
Flowers of speech (1935)

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