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

Old Links, Old Logos

See also: The Lion and the Kangaroo

Reynolds Stone, Engravings

"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)