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GOD BLESS POLARIS

 

I wrote this in January, 1967, in protest at a bishop proposing to bless a nuclear weapon submarine, carrying the then nuclear weapon Polaris. I believe I submitted it to the editor of Peace News, but do not think it was published. Apologies for irregularities of metre and rhyme!

 

'At Birkenhead, on the twenty-fifth of February,

I'll be chug, chug, chugging across on the ferry,

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