Look who's here! Do come and help us fiddle while Rome burn… - William Plomer

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Look who's here!
Do come and help us fiddle while Rome burns!

William Plomer

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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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When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin
She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin:
An abstemious man would reel at her look
As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.

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

Who strolls so late, for mugs a bait,
In the mists of Maida Vale,
Sauntering past a stucco gate
Fallen, but hardly frail?

Look who's here! Do come and help us fiddle while Rome burns! - William Plomer

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