Friday 13 December 2013

Australia and Great Britain (2); John Betjeman, Australia


Old Links, Old Logos





"Day after day I long
For sun girt, sunkissed, surfing Aussie land
Would even dare the waves on Bondi Beach...
'Oh come back!'
The watttle and the wallabies cry out.
And soon, please God, I will."

(John Betjeman, from "To Norman Williams and Patsy Zeppel", February 1963)


"Aspects of Australia", Vogue, p. 375,  February 1963


Reprinted in John Betjeman, Coming Home, An anthology of  his prose 1920-1977 (1997)

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