J. C. Squire

J. C. Squire (John Collings Squire) (2 April 1884 – 20 December 1958) was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period.

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• God heard the embattled nations sing and shout
  "Gott strafe England" and "God save the King!"
  God this, God that, and God the other thing –
  "Good God!" said God, "I've got my work cut out!"
  
• From Epigrams (1916)
  • On the outbreak of the First World War.

• It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho.
  Let Einstein be," restored the status quo.
  • "In Continuation of Pope on Newton", from Poems (1926)
  • Written in response to Alexander Pope's "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said 'Let Newton be' and all was light."

• The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.
  • Selections from Modern Poets, Complete Edition (1927), p.vi

• And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot -
  But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
  • Ballade of Soporific Absorption (1931).

• Now there once was a lass, and a very pretty lass,
  And she was an isotope's daughter
  • Poem The Lass o' the Lab - A Modern Folksong

• At last incapable of further harm,
  The lewd forefathers of the village sleep.
  • Poem If Gray had had to write his Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River instead of in that of Stoke Poges