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Young Lord Falcon And The Scarlet Woman (An Edwardian Adventure).(Poem)

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From: Quadrant
Date: 20070701
Author:Whitworth, John

 
YOUNG LORD FALCON AND THE SCARLET WOMAN 
(AN EDWARDIAN ADVENTURE) 
 
(Wars on Terror the best part of a century ago can be found 
in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Arthur Conan Doyle 's His 
Last Bow, John Buchan's Greenmantle and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu 
series. The Roman Catholic Church is unaccountably 
missing from this list.) 
 
   Young Lord Falcon struck the coffin with his black Malacca cane, 
      "By the bowels of the Antichrist, you've hit it! 
   It was Popery that did it, like a hammer to the brain, 
   Just the merest breath of priest-craft drives an Englishman insane 
   ...

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