Orwell: A Clergyman’s Grandson

A happy vicar I might have been Two hundred years ago, To preach upon eternal doom And watch my walnuts grow; But born, alas, in an evil time, I missed that pleasant haven, For the hair has grown on my upper lip And the clergy are all clean-shaven.  (The Adelphi, December 1936) A Clergyman’s Daughter, […]