“We sat in the car park till twenty to one
And now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster
"A Subaltern's Love-song" line 43.
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“Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,
Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun,
What strenuous singles we played after tea,
We in the tournament — you against me!”
"A Subaltern's Love-song" line 1, from New Bats in Old Belfries (1945).
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