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Language of the liberal dead speaks
From the soil of Highgate, tears
Show a great water table is intact.
You cannot leave England, it turns
A planet majestically in the mind.

— Peter Porter The Last of England (1970)

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Somewhere at the heart
of the universe sounds the
true mystic note: Me.

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A professional
is one who believes he has
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In the New World, happiness is enforced.

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold
for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster
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In Australia
Inter alia,
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