I SAW Shakespeare In a Tube station on the Central London: He was smoking a pipe, He had Sax Rohmer's best novel under his arm (In a cheap edition), And the @3Evening News@1. He was reading in the half-detached way one does. He had just come away from an office And the notes for @3The Merchant@1 Were in his pocket, Beginning (it was the first line he thought of) 'Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins,' But his chief wish was to be earning more money. |