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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday:
Celia Celia, Adrian Mitchell
When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on
High Holborn is a street in central London (TIL the bourn in the name is probably the former River Fleet). My first reaction was to compare this not with any of several possible Ben Jonson callbacks, but Simon & Garfunkel, despite the name not actually being right.
---L.
Subject quote from Once I Loved A Maiden Fair, aka The Revolted Lover (alt source), Anonymous balladeer. The version quoted is from chapter 1 of The Girls of the Hamlet Club by Elsie J. Oxenham (1914).
Celia Celia, Adrian Mitchell
When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on
High Holborn is a street in central London (TIL the bourn in the name is probably the former River Fleet). My first reaction was to compare this not with any of several possible Ben Jonson callbacks, but Simon & Garfunkel, despite the name not actually being right.
---L.
Subject quote from Once I Loved A Maiden Fair, aka The Revolted Lover (alt source), Anonymous balladeer. The version quoted is from chapter 1 of The Girls of the Hamlet Club by Elsie J. Oxenham (1914).