In A Bath Teashop

Portrait of John Betjeman
John Betjeman 1906–1984

"Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another— Let us hold hands and look." She such a very ordinary little woman; He such a thumping crook; But both, for a moment, little lower than the angels In the teashop's ingle-nook.

Reprinted with the permission of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.

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