Hopefully rough winds are not shaking the darling buds of May when you read this – hopefully the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, while the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough in England – now!… I am very much looking forward to the last night of the Village Festival when Colin Greenslade will be reading “Best Loved Poems” in the Banqueting Hall of Knebworth House. “How Do I Love Thee…” “She Walks in Beauty…” “I Wandered Lonely…” “I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth…” Yes, everyone’s favourite poems will be represented, including Colin’s trademark comic poems which are so popular at Christmastime. Joan Hunter Dunn will be there – furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun – Burning Tygers, Idle Kings, and the lady with the lovely face, God in his mercy lend her grace… Is there honey still for tea? – No, but there will be sparkling wine on arrival, and canapés in the interval! See you there!
Henry Lytton Cobbold
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