Pedestrian Advice Comments

Few things worse

than being taken ill on Hounslow Heath

son

as the runaway Bishop learned

and many a humbler soul

so keep the straight and narrow

boy

don't stray from Hounslow's long unlovely street

respect its Grove Road School ethos

(though few of the pupils

know their alphabet)

don't footpad

the shadowy ways by the Crane

or ride the dark

of wildtrack and brake

where a bullet can find you -

heart or brain

anywhere anywhen -

between Hounslow and Heston

Our town's one dull street

won't get you took ill

with the plaguey gunshot

fatal and fast - why run the risk?



The nuns who worked the Syon Cope

have all gone home to Lisbon -

that's a safe distance from the Heath!

If Bishop Twysden

of Raphoe

had kept such faith

he'd be living in his Donegal living

to this day

son
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