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Slough

John Betjeman

"Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection Continual Dew.

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“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!”

John Betjeman Slough

"Slough" line 1, from Continual Dew (1937).
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