HOW, MR GODLEY?
How, Mr Godley, do you like the way We doll your Square up for the modern day? How do you like those buildings sleek and tall Which make the House of God look squat and small; Those soulless glittering inanities Modelled upon the works of ants and bees? In every angle of the Square they rise Where moneycomb to moneycomb replies. Do you not sometimes cast a longing eye Backward upon the Square of days gone by When you could hear the ring of horses’ feet And rooks crowed in the gums of Worcester street, Where Moorhouses and Harpers went their ways Among the bullock teams and creaking drays, Where Bowens, Barkers, Dobsons, Halls and Warners Tied up their nags and gossiped in the corners? And don’t you wonder, Mr Godley, how We’re heading, the way it’s going now? For surely in another generation It’ll be just any Square in any nation. A.W.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30424, 24 April 1964, Page 3
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