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by Vernon Scannell
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© Vernon Scannell 1965 (collected in Walking Wounded); the rights are now held by the Estate of Vernon Scannell. As printed in the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology (Issue 8, February 2026), which gives its source as Collected Poems 1950-1993 (Faber & Faber, 2011) and reproduces it by permission of the Estate of Vernon Scannell. Quoted here in short phrases for criticism and review.