<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547444" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Britain's Slough and Upton</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brief Synopsis: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just prior to German air raids on Slough<br>in World War Two, Thames Valley was<br>progressing with a new industrial plan, <br>which could have brought distress to<br>the peaceful rural land...John Betjeman, <br>the poet, wrote rhyming words to disapprove; <br>what more could a disappointed Laureate do? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, <br>it isn't fit for humans now'. John Betjeman.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Slough today is a pleasant town, <br>where every amenity can be found...<br>and yew trees surround the graveyard<br>of the Norman Church of renown.<br>'Twas here ~ in his own Slough garden<br>Sir William Hershall of astronomy fame<br>built the world's large telescope, <br>for which stargazers honour his name.<br>And Sir Thomas Gray, poet supreme, <br>wrote a most delightful theme: <br>I now quote the first four lines of a very<br>long poem from historical times: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'<br>The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, <br>the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, <br>the plowman homeward plods his weary way<br>and leaves the world to darkness and to me.<br>Thomas Gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joyce+Hemsley">Joyce Hemsley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547444" data-title="Britain's Slough and Upton de Joyce Hemsley" data-description="Brief Synopsis: Just prior to German air raids on Slough in World War Two, Thames Valley was progressing with a new industrial plan, which could have brought distress to the peaceful rural land...John Betjeman, the poet, wrote rhyming words to..."></div> </div> </div>

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