Re: Betjemen poetry enquiry
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:51 pm
Ten years later I've just come across this query and i know the answer.
Old engines with their primal anger gone
Their fire and fury rusted quite away
No longer chuffing into platform one,
Butchered to make a scrapyard's holiday.
Don't think they will not take it hard at Hatch,
Thornfalcon, Donyatt, Chard, their summary despatch.
It is by Caryl Brahms and was broadcast on the satyrical TV programme That Was The Week That Was, but I saw it as a chapter heading in "Gone With Regret" by George Behrend.
Old engines with their primal anger gone
Their fire and fury rusted quite away
No longer chuffing into platform one,
Butchered to make a scrapyard's holiday.
Don't think they will not take it hard at Hatch,
Thornfalcon, Donyatt, Chard, their summary despatch.
It is by Caryl Brahms and was broadcast on the satyrical TV programme That Was The Week That Was, but I saw it as a chapter heading in "Gone With Regret" by George Behrend.