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Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,
Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun,
What strenuous singles we played after tea,
We in the tournament — you against me!
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"A Subaltern's Love-song" line 1, from New Bats in Old Belfries (1945)

 

John Betjeman

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