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Gordon Wright

Come in. Catch this! and name it, if you would?
Do take your time, and take the fireside chair.
Of course, I wasn't always here at Clare...
(The second metacarpal? Very good.)
I practiced as a medic in the war
till I retired. In '46, you know...
(I say, I'm not convinced by this Bordeaux
but we won't notice after three or four...)

Thus every gentle Michaelmas, attending
the birth of cou...

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