Queen Elizabeth II (Remove filter)
1966
When the Queen shook hands with Bobby Moore,
He wiped his in awkward reverence,
(Just in the way that Larkin reacted
By taking off his cycle clips in Church).
Such acts of unrehearsed respect,
Like the embarrassing curtsies
And those tongue-tied conversations,
May be the closest that we come,
Quite unwittingly, to sampling
A world of habits which endures
As years and ...
Friday 9th September 2022 4:52 pm
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