John Louis Brown

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    “Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans.
    Spare their women for Thy Sake,
    And if that is not too easy
    We will pardon Thy Mistake.
    But gracious Lord, whate’er shall be,
    Don’t let anyone bomb me.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “Whippersnapper clerks
    Call us out of our name
    We got to say mister
    To spindling boys”
    —Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)