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Full text of John Davidson's poem as featured in Phil Goodwin column

31 July 2006
 

John Davidson 1857-1909

THE TESTAMENT OF SIR SIMON SIMPLEX CONCERNING AUTOMOBILISM

That railways are inadequate appears

Indubitable now. For sixty years

Their comfort grew until the train de luxe

Arrived, arousing in conducted Cook's,

And other wholesale, tourists, an envious smart,

For here they recognised the perfect art

And science of land-travel. Now we sing

A greater era, hail a happier Spring.

The motor-car reveals ineptitude

In railway-trains; and travellers conclude

The...

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