Some one in Cairo—Cairo, if you please!—
Reports that Britain is arranging Peace.
There’s been a meeting in the Pyrenees’.
(The tale’s from Yugoslavia and Greece.)
Then Moscow spreads it, very wide and well:
It’s heard in Maine, and on Miami Beach.
Was it in vain the Tower of Babel fell?
Is it for this that we defend Free Speech?
January 23, 1944
(A P Herbert)
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