lirik lagu joyce grenfell - sarah byng
some years ago you heard me sing
my doubts on alexander byng
his sister sarah now inspires
my jaded muse, my failing fires
of sarah byng the tale is told
how when the child was twelve years old
she could not read or write a line
her sister jane, though barely nine
could spout the catechism through
and parts of matthew arnold too
while little bill who came between
was quite unnaturally keen
on ‘athalie’, by jean racine
but not so sarah! not so sal!
she was a most uncultured girl
who didn’t care a pinch of snuff
for any literary stuff
and gavе the classics all a miss
observe thе consequence of this!
as she was walking home one day
upon the fields across her way
a gate, securely padlocked, stood
and by its side a piece of wood
on which was painted plain and full
beware the very furious bull
alas! the young illiterate
went blindly forward to her fate
and ignorantly climbed the gate!
now happily the bull that day
was rather in the mood for play
than goring people through and through
as bulls so very often do;
he tossed her lightly with his h~rns
into a pr~ckly hedge of th~rns
and stood by laughing while she strode
and pushed and struggled to the road
the lesson was not lost upon
the child, who since has always gone
a long way round to keep away
from signs, whatever they may say
and leaves a padlocked gate alone
moreover she has wisely grown
confirmed in her instinctive guess
that literature breeds distress
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