Wednesday, December 14, 2022

A London That Never Was - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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A London That Never Was

 

The London of Boswell never truly was

And yet it is the truest London of all:

Coffee at The Turk’s Head, beer at The Mitre

Not much minding either bishops or Turks

 

A pipe and a pint with Johnson and the greats:

Oliver Goldsmith, Reynolds and Garrick

Hester Thrale, and Boswell, of course

Books and papers and arguments and poems

 

If we are going to visit London someday

We had better visit Boswell and Johnson first

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