Dans Une Patisserie Salon De The A Bath.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Poem Hunter/ John Betjeman/ Poems/ 27/54/ Biography.
The six-lined poem rhymes ababcb.
The scene is a tea shop in Bath, England, where a man and a woman are having a cup of tea. He wants to hold hands with her and look together at the scene. She is 'a very ordinary little woman', while he is an out-and-out criminal. Effective character contrast indeed. Even so, they are for a moment little lower than the angels in a secluded corner of the tea shop.