No More Learning

Chesterton's England of h,ls-been and why-not, or IS It all rust, rum, death dutIes and mortgages and the great           yard en1pty
and more pIctures gone to pay taxes
When a dog 15 tall b~t not so tall as all that that dog IS a Talbot
(a bit long In the pasterns'>> WhenabuttIS ~astallasawholebutt
That butt IS a small butt
Let backe and sIde go bare
and the old kitchen left as the monks had left It and the rest as time has cleft It
[Only shadows enter my tent
as men pass between me and tIle sunset,]
beyond the eastern barbed wire a sow with nIne boneen
matronly as any duchess at ClarIdge's
and for that ChrIstmas at Maurie Hewlett's GOing out from Southampton
they passed the car by the dozen
who would not have shown weIght on a scale rIdIng, rIding
for Noel the green holly Noel, Noel, the green holly
A dark nIght for the holly
That would have been SalIsbury plaIn, and I have not thougllt of the Lady Anne for thIS twelve years
N or of Le Porte!