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Than the Ministry of Sound
The danse macabre drags itself
Slowly round and round
Till driven underground
With Elgar, the steam trains
The stirrup-cup and horn
The gin on the veranda
And tennis on the lawn
They trundle on till dawn
In faux Edwardiana
A bobby's friendly clout
The rapping and the scratching
And panic-driven shout
Of children in a coal cupboard
Begging to get out.
As doughty English nannies
On bicycles in mist
Meet the autumn morning
With a slap upon the wrist
For Hague the alchemist
Jerusalem clears dance floors
The DJ pops a tranq.
Each picture sells a tory
In office, church and bank
But membership's declining
And all the cards stay blank.
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