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Thea Musgrave

On the Underground, Set No. 2 – The Strange and the Exotic  Play

National Youth Choir of Scotland Chorale
Christopher Bell Conductor

Recorded on 08/17/2004, uploaded on 01/11/2009

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On the Underground, Set No. 2 - The Strange and the Exotic         Thea Musgrave

There is one unexpected pleasure in taking the London underground: one's eye may alight on a poem, and the imagination takes wing.  The second poem so alarmed the Transport Executive that it was never used.

Dreams by Robert Herrick

Here we are all, by day; by night;

By night we are hurled by dreams

Each one into a several world.                                   

 

The Subway Piranhas by Edwin Morgan

Did anyone tell you that in each subway train there is one special seat with a small hole in it and underneath the seat is a tank of piranha fish which have not been fed for quite some time.

The fish become agitated by the shoogling of the train and jump up through the seat. The resulting skeletons of unlucky passengers turn an honest penny for the transport executive hanging far and wide in medical schools.

Christopher Bell