John Gordon Sprigg

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    Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
    Communicated monthly, sit and stare
    At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
    Where a young man lands hatless from the air.
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
    Cheers the tar’s labour or the Turkman’s rest.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)