THE GREY SQUIRREL
Like a small grey
coffee-pot,
sits the squirrel.
He is not
all he should be,
kills by dozens
trees, and eats
his red-brown cousins.
The keeper on the
other hand,
who shot him, is
a Christian, and
loves his enemies,
which shows
the squirrel was not
one of those.
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Humbert Wolfe CB CBE was an Italian-born British poet and civil servant. It is said that he was "of no political creed, except that his general view is that money and its possessors should be abolished." The following which comes from his "The Uncelestial City" is often quoted today:
You cannot hope to bribe or twist,
thank God! the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do
unbribed, there's no occasion to.
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