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 again, as rustics love it. Therefore (I quote again from the great Cockney version of The Golden Treasury)--


 * "'Therefore, ye gas-pipes, ye asbestos? stoves,
 * Forbode not any severing of our loves.
 * I have relinquished but your earthly sight,
 * To hold you dear in a more distant way.
 * I'll love the 'buses lumbering through the wet,
 * Even more than when I lightly tripped as they.
 * The grimy colour of the London clay
 * Is lovely yet,'

"because I have found the house where I was really born; the tall and quiet house from which I can see London afar off, as the miracle of man that it is."