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This Record was Made by John Betjeman on the 9th day of June 1959

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Gaily into Ruislip Gardens
           Runs the red electric train
      With a thousand Ta’s and Pardon’s
           Daintily alights Elaine;
      Hurries down the concrete station
      With a frown of concentration
      Out into the outskirt’s edges
      Where a few surviving hedges
Keep alive our lost Elysium—rural Middlesex again
      Well cut Windsmoor flapping lightly
           Jacqmar scarf of mauve and green
      Hiding hair which, Friday nightly
           Delicately drowns in Drene;
      Fair Elaine the bobby-soxer
      Fresh-complexioned with Innoxa
      Gains the garden—father’s hobby—
      Hangs her Windsmoor in the lobby
Settles down to sandwich supper and the television screen
      Gentle Brent, I used to know you
           Wandering Wembley-wards at will
      Now what change your waters show you
           In the meadowlands you fill!
      Recollect the elm-trees misty
      And the footpaths climbing twisty
      Under cedar-shaded palings
      Low laburnum-leaned-on railings
Out of Northolt on and upward to the heights of Harrow hill
      Parish of enormous hayfields
           Perivale stood all alone
      And from Greenford scent of mayfields
           Most enticingly was blown
      Over market gardens tidy
      Taverns for the bona fide
      Cockney anglers, cockney shooters
      Murray Poshes, Lupin Pooters
Long in Kensal Green and Highgate silent under soot and stone
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Sir John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman

About “Middlesex” by Sir John Betjeman

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