24 JUNE 1966, Page 25

A Spoonful of Sugar

It's a dreary life, where everything happens again. The men work hard and die, the wives live on, the children grow big and unmanageable.

It's a hard world, for the sane or the insane. The music freshens us up, or some words by Donne, or like a runnable stag a girl is haveable.

It's a town of cliché, boring in the main, but a sudden love like a rainbow, quickly gone, crosses the sky and the rivers are navigable. GAVIN EW A R