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John Betjeman - I.M. Walter Ramsden OB. March 26, 1947, Pembroke College, OxfordJohn Betjeman - I.M. Walter Ramsden OB. March 26, 1947, Pembroke College, Oxford
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Dr Ramsden cannot read The Times obituary to-day He’s dead. Let monographs on silk worms by other people be Thrown away Unread For he who best could understand and criticize them, he Lies clay In bed. The body waits in Pembroke College where the ivy taps the panes All night; That old head so full of knowledge, that good heart that kept the brains All right, Those old cheeks that faintly flushed as the port suffused the veins, Drain’d white. Crocus in the Fellows’ Garden, winter jasmine up the wall Gleam gold. Shadows of Victorian chimneys on the sunny grassplot fall Long, cold. Master, Bursar, Senior Tutor, these, his three survivors, all Feel old. They remember, as the coffin to its final obsequations Leaves the gates, Buzz of bees in window boxes on their summer ministrations, Kitchen din, Cups and plates, And the getting of bump suppers for the long-dead generations Coming in, From Eights.
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