18 SEPTEMBER 1982, Page 29

Competition

No. 1236: Old favourite

Set by Jaspistos: Over 20 years ago, in a New Statesman competition, Desmond Skirrow barbarously boiled down Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' to:

Gods chase Round vase. What say? What play? Don't know. Nice, though.

You are invited to treat another well-known poem similarly (maximum 10 lines: no need for them to be as short). Entries to 'Com- petition No 1236' by 1 October.