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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">The town\u2019s first taxis<br \/>were big private cars<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">you called at the door to book,<br \/>Kelly\u2019s of Eden Street,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Joe Flanagan at the West Bridge.<br \/>It was so much a mile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We\u2019re on our way to the hospital,<br \/>visiting friends.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In the back<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">all you can hear is my mother<br \/>talking away, Peter Kelly going<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">yes Ma\u2019am, yes Ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Hardyesque&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Hardyesque&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Hardyesque&#8221; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">SPAIN I<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the Mackles<br \/>came back from Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">with a bracelet of bullets<br \/>and a whole new lingo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He had the whole town at it.<br \/>Venceremos! Madre mia! Viva Franco!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">II<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Who that was there could forget<br \/>the morning quiet Father Daly<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">announced, from the altar,<br \/>he was off to Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">to serve God and Franco?<br \/>They had a night for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They saw his pale hands darken<br \/>under a southern sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He took a hit at Zaragoza<br \/>ricocheted round the chapel<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">at May devotions.<br \/>He was never the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Invalided home,<br \/>he lay for years<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in the priests\u2019 house,<br \/>a ghost at a window,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">coming to the door<br \/>with medals, masscards,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in his tiny tanned hands<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_audio audio=&#8221;http:\/\/kevinquinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Spain-2.m4a&#8221; title=&#8221;SPAIN I&#8221; artist_name=&#8221;Kevin Quinn&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; 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_builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Mercer-s-Window&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;MERCERS&#8217; WINDOW&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">That side of High Street<br \/>gets the sun early<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">and the threadbare awning\u2019s<br \/>no help to the shop girl<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">reaching blind into<br \/>Mercers\u2019 window<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">past brooches, bracelets,<br \/>Belleek, to reach,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">right at the back,<br \/>in its velveteen pouch,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the new slimline Parker,<br \/>its chevronned top<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a promise of fluency, ease<br \/>has beckoned all summer<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">to scholarship boys<br \/>will be leaving soon<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">for lodgings, digs,<br \/>whose addresses<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">they rehearse, repeat,<br \/>on the fly-leaves of<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">textbooks, primers.<br \/>The ink dries to an uncertain blue<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">on the tall leafless avenues,<br \/>Wellesley, Fitzroy, Dunluce.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">The town had little to add<br \/>to the evening editions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hearsay makes poor copy<br \/>and anyway flooding<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">on the Coa* Road\u2019s seasonal,<br \/>regular as Christmas,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">is news to no one that matters.<br \/>There\u2019s a story though breaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in Larry Hall\u2019s shop,<br \/>among the <em>Heralds<\/em> and <em>Reporters<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Darling Street will struggle<br \/>to contain and by nightfall<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">be the whole talk,<br \/>trumping even that low sun\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">caught the recessed porch<br \/>of the chapel, an archangel,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">no less, rampant,<br \/>casually spearing a dragon,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the church\u2019s patron &#8211;<br \/>the angel that is,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">not the dragon \u2013<br \/>a pair of painters,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">up from Dublin<br \/>in their painters\u2019 smocks,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">worked on all winter,<br \/>sheet after sheet<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of gold leaf,<br \/>well into the evening,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">often by torchlight,<br \/>standing well back,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">just to get the thing finished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>* pronounced Co<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">A crowd would gather<br \/>where the tramp-painter<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">set to work<br \/>stepping out a mural<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">for Richardsons\u2019 gable,<br \/>retouching Irvine the butcher\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">shop front idyll,<br \/>cattle in a meadow,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">he\u2019d touch up yearly,<br \/>redoing rushes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the brushwork on clouds<br \/>and as suddenly as he\u2019d come<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">he was gone,<br \/>the stool folded,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the ladder shouldered,<br \/>two huge lilies,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">his calling card,<br \/>leaning unseasonably<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">out onto East Bridge Street<br \/>children cupped their hands<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">to catch the drops from.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">With double summer time<br \/>north of the border,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">one of Maurice Cassidy\u2019s buses,<br \/>or so his pale posters advised,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">could have you in Bundoran an hour<br \/>before you\u2019d even left the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The unlooked-for hour we spent<br \/>adjusting to an ocean, an horizon,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">willing the waves whiter,<br \/>the sand finer, all the while<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">gawkily undressing<br \/>over by some rocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Be careful, be careful,<br \/>my mother\u2019s words<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">were wasted on the wind<br \/>while we ran ourselves ragged,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">poor, pallid Picassos,<br \/>on the harder sand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Lemass and Princess Grace<br \/>held their smiles on the front pages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">My father fought down the paper.<br \/>We ran into neighbours,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">saw another side to them.<br \/>The amusements were bumper to bumper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Over tea, bread and butter<br \/>in the West End Caf\u00e9,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">one eye out for the bus,<br \/>sand getting everywhere,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">as my father went on with the paper,<br \/>my mother asked after<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the wife of the owner,<br \/>a woman she\u2019d worked with,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">knew from home<br \/>who\u2019d never, she told us,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">standing, pouring out tea,<br \/>settled, gotten used to the sea,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the racket it made at night.<br \/>Hedgerows, lane ends, big red barns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She missed the simple things.<br \/>If she had it to do again,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">she said, turning for the stairs,<br \/>she\u2019d stay at home<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">and never venture further<br \/>than you could hurl a stick.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #In-Blaney-Bay&#8221; module_id=&#8221;In-Blaney-Bay&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;In-Blaney-Bay&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;IN BLANEY BAY&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">And don\u2019t even think of going ashore,<br \/>feeling your way among stones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thorn and briar\u2019ll lash your face.<br \/>You\u2019ll trip over trees no one heard fall<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">though it was broad day<br \/>and the lough looked on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That heap of bricks was a gable,<br \/>the broken tiles a floor<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">brushed clean with a swan\u2019s wing.<br \/>Fishermen still working<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">recall a curl of smoke,<br \/>a single cow raising its head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The fickleness of passing trade.<br \/>The last family left here<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in a borrowed row boat<br \/>loaded with grievance,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a few sticks of furniture,<br \/>a milking stool the youngest<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">wouldn\u2019t part with<br \/>stowed under her seat,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">leaving behind them<br \/>not a trace, except it be<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the blowsy dog rose<br \/>unfurls without fail<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">like a flag, blush-pale<br \/>every summer round the door.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Signwriter&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Signwriter&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Signwriter&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;SIGNWRITER&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; 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admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Cutlery&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Cutlery&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Cutlery&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;CUTLERY&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">You had an eye for cutlery.<br \/>All week the good set lay<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">on its side in the well of the table.<br \/>We made do with oddments,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">one offs, whatever came to hand.<br \/>Forks like father and son,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">silver cheek by jowl with bone<br \/>and, unheralded mornings,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">coming down to grapefruit,<br \/>the palest of yellow moons,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the tapering curve of the knife<br \/>the furrowed bowl of the spoon.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_audio audio=&#8221;http:\/\/kevinquinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cuttlery.m4a&#8221; title=&#8221;CUTLERY&#8221; artist_name=&#8221;Kevin Quinn&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; caption_font_size=&#8221;10px&#8221; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.2)&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; 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global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;HAW HAW&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">The war was a giggle.<br \/>Air raid warnings,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ration books<br \/>and smuggling<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Haw Haw upstairs<br \/>in the laundry, a frisson<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of treason, Germany<br \/>calling, Germany calling<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">through heavy linen sheets.<br \/>It was no laughing matter,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">though, the night he enquired,<br \/>out of the blue, whether<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the Town Hall clock<br \/>was still running five minutes late<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">and how the Town Hall was looking<br \/>in its new coat of paint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Have a good long look.<br \/>It mightn\u2019t get another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nightly now Messerschmitts<br \/>banked over Cuilcagh,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">strafing Main Street<br \/>with the hardest rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jackboots goose-stepped<br \/>The Broadmeadow,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swastikas swathed the Fort Hill.<br \/>It took the longer evenings<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">to put paid to your phoney war,<br \/>send you back to your laundry,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">your girlfriends,<br \/>the getting ready,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the nightly adventure<br \/>of the blacked out streets.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #1962&#8243; module_id=&#8221;1962&#8243; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;1962&#8243; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;1962&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">I was nine that febrile summer<br \/>but still took some convincing<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the cylinders outside Head Street clinic<br \/>weren\u2019t primed and pointing at Cuba<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">or that young Donnelly, who\u2019d scaled the wall<br \/>of the Crumlin Road and was clearly now<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">our only hope, wouldn\u2019t be caught<br \/>in the beam of light crossing,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">recrossing the kitchen ceiling &#8211;<br \/>the wireless dial\u2019s reflection,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a searchlight on now night and day &#8211;<br \/>as he made his halting way westwards,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">safe house by safe house,<br \/>every back door on the snib.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #The-Presentation-Brothers&#8221; module_id=&#8221;The-Presentation-Brothers&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; 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A century<br \/>of standing at blackboards,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Algeo thin as El Greco,<br \/>Falconer\u2019s Alsatians<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">scaling the school wall,<br \/>Damian, whist nights,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">cradling a Powers,<br \/>Aloysius with his breviary,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a visored Hilary<br \/>running urgent with his bees.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Fanlight&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Fanlight&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Fanlight&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; 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header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">Exam weather<br \/>and the day girls<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">up the Fort Hill<br \/>are shielding their eyes<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">from irregular verbs,<br \/>Count Metternich,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">the lesser odes of Keats.<br \/>They\u2019re fully stretched<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">and not sleeping.<br \/>It could still go either way<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">at the Congress of Vienna.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Popup &#8211; #Uniform&#8221; module_id=&#8221;Uniform&#8221; module_class=&#8221;popup&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;on&#8221; da_popup_slug=&#8221;Uniform&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;UNIFORM&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_letter_spacing=&#8221;3px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Term time,<br \/>on chair backs<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">in the kitchen,<br \/>pressed, ironed,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">my sisters\u2019 uniforms,<br \/>two of everything,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">blazers, blouses,<br \/>pleated skirts,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">and to complete the look,<br \/>on a hook in the hall,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">twin tasseled berets<br \/>were swapped, come May,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">for panamas<br \/>orbited the town<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">till tea time,<br \/>the first shops shutting<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">and everywhere,<br \/>up The Brook,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">down Wellington,<br \/>out by The Aluminiums,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">it\u2019s time to go in.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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