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The commonplace needs no defence,It may be born, it may be born.
— William Plomer
The commonplace needs no defence,It may be born, it may be born.
A family portrait not too stale to recordBetween the wars.
Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedAnd man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.
When her guests were awash with champagne and with ginAs she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.
Brzeska and Brooke were among those she knewTalked to Hardy of Kim, and to Kipling of Tess!
