TO AN ESTIMATOR
Posted by Admin on 20 January 2008, 12:00 am
Set high above on egotism’s pinnacle,
blandly self-confident, of dignified mien;
viewing mankind with outlook so cynical,
with discipline guiding the daily routine;
polyglot traveller, and erudite wag,
shall we ever forget your mordacious wit,
your penchant for quoting some apt Latin tag,
or zeal for avoiding infinitives split?
Driving the ‘Progress’; advising ‘Inspection’;
now formidably firm; now subtly benign,
seeking a clue for lost pencil’s detection,
with slide-rule perusing a draughtsman’s design:
thus memory, still, recalls each changing phase,
and its tribute to undoubted talent pays.
T. C. Hudson
18th March 1938
© T. C. Hudson.
Village
- - Apollo Theatre
- - Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society
- - Cowes Amateur Winemakers
- - Cowes Heritage
- - Cowes Radar Ex-Employees Association (CREEA)
- - Cowes-Deauville Twinning Association
- - Friends of Northwood Cemetery
- - Newport Rowing Club
- - Northwood Floral Art Group
- - Northwood Village Produce Association
- - Northwood W.I.
Parish Council