Elocution lessons I came to regret having expressedly taken for pleasure
I tried cutely to lessen their length by feigning faintness
But my unpersuadable tutor accompanied me to my outpatients
In his vocation’s suede, clean shabby in that bachelor way,
Looking like Aunty’s favourite smoke-stained seating arrangements.
From mean habit estranged: lean, stringent, kindly, unfrail.
Something dwelt about him of veldt untamedness,
A wildness that plainness housed
His eyes proved inample casement
To the strength of the deed-pregnant flame
Placed at his brave centre.
Alchemisland 
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