Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise design… - William Plomer

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Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designed
Than other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,
When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,
And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

William Plomer

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About William Plomer

William Charles Franklyn Plomer (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African poet, novelist and campaigner for racial equality. He also wrote the librettos for four of Benjamin Britten’s operas. He wrote some of his poetry under the pseudonym Robert Pagan.

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Alternative Names: William Charles Franklyn Plomer

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The commonplace needs no defence,
Dullness is in the critic’s eyes,
Without a licence life evolves
From some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,
Behind these hedges trimly shorn,
As in a stable once, so here
It may be born, it may be born.

On a sofa upholstered in panther skin
Mona did researches in .

So never say to D'Arcy, 'Be your age!' —
He'd shrivel up at once or turn to stone.

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