John Evangelist

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    Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
    Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl’s hand!
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)