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They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them.

— Joyce Grenfell Stately as a Galleon (1978)

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Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.

Stately as a Galleon (1978)

Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

Stately as a Galleon (1978)

I was allowed to slave for them
For ever and evermore.
Oh, I was allowed to fetch and carry
For my Three Brothers,
Jim and Bob and Harry.

If I should go before the rest of you,
Break not a flower, nor inscribe a stone,
Nor, when I’m gone, speak in a Sunday voice,
But be the usual selves That I have known.

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