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By Sir W S	A
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Written on the occasion of the visit of the United Fire Brigades to Oxford	B
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St Giles's street is fair and wide	C
St Giles's street is long	D
But long or wide may naught abide	C
Therein of guile or wrong	D
For through St Giles's to and fro	E
The mild ecclesiastics go	E
From prime to evensong	E
It were a fearsome task perdie	C
To sin in such good company	F
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Long had the slanting beam of day	C
Proclaimed the Thirtieth of May	C
Ere now erect its fiery heat	C
Illumined all that hallowed street	C
And breathing benediction on	G
Thy serried battlements St John	G
Suffused at once with equal glow	E
The cluster'd Archipelago	E
The Art Professor's studio	E
And Mr Greenwood's shop	H
Thy building Pusey where below	E
The stout Salvation soldiers blow	E
The cornet till they drop	H
Thine Balliol where we move and oh	E
Thine Randolph where we stop	H
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But what is this that frights the air	I
And wakes the curate from his lair	I
In Pusey's cool retreat	C
To leave the feast to climb the stair	I
And scan the startled street	C
As when perambulate the young	E
And call with unrelenting tongue	E
On home mamma and sire	J
Or voters shout with strength of lung	E
For Hall Co's Entire	J
Or Sabbath breakers scream and shout	C
The band of Booth with drum devout	C
Eliza on her Sunday out	C
Or Farmer with his choir	J
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E'en so with shriek of fife and drum	L
And horrid clang of brass	M
The Fire Brigades of England come	L
And down St Giles's pass	M
Oh grand methinks in such array	C
To spend a Whitsun Holiday	C
All soaking to the skin	N
Yet shoes and hose alike are stout	C
The shoes to keep the water out	C
The hose to keep it in	N
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They came from Henley on the Thames	O
From Berwick on the Tweed	C
And at the mercy of the flames	P
They left their children and their dames	P
To come and play their little games	P
On Morrell's dewy mead	C
Yet feared they not with fire to play	C
The pyrotechnics so they say	C
Were very fine indeed	C
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P S by Lord Macaulay	K
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Then let us bless Our Gracious Queen and eke the Fire Brigade	C
And bless no less the horrid mess they've been and gone and made	C
Remove the dirt they chose to squirt upon our best attire	J
Bless all but most the lucky chance that no one shouted 'Fire '	-

Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch

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