“Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!”

"Slough" line 1, from Continual Dew (1937).
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English poet, writer and broadcaster 1906–1984

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