<h2><SPAN class="pagenum" name="Page_34" title="34"> </SPAN>“The Saracen's Head”</h2>
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<div class="line">“<span class="upper-case">The</span> Saracen's Head” looks down the lane,<br/></div>
<div class="line">Where we shall never drink wine again,<br/></div>
<div class="line">For the wicked old women who feel well-bred<br/></div>
<div class="line">Have turned to a tea-shop “The Saracen's Head.”<br/></div>
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<SPAN class="pagenum" name="Page_35" title="35"> </SPAN><div class="line">“The Saracen's Head” out of Araby came,<br/></div>
<div class="line">King Richard riding in arms like flame,<br/></div>
<div class="line">And where he established his folk to be fed<br/></div>
<div class="line">He set up a spear—and the Saracen's Head.<br/></div>
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<div class="line">But “The Saracen's Head” outlived the Kings,<br/></div>
<div class="line">It thought and it thought of most horrible things,<br/></div>
<div class="line">Of Health and of Soap and of Standard Bread,<br/></div>
<div class="line">And of Saracen drinks at “The Saracen's Head.”<br/></div>
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<SPAN class="pagenum" name="Page_36" title="36"> </SPAN><div class="line">So “The Saracen's Head” fulfils its name,<br/></div>
<div class="line">They drink no wine—a ridiculous game—<br/></div>
<div class="line">And I shall wonder until I'm dead,<br/></div>
<div class="line">How it ever came into the Saracen's Head.<br/></div>
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