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keithlbw | 19:23 Mon 21st Mar 2005 | Arts & Literature
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Can any answerbankers identify an old poem I think it may be from the 1930s or 40s.

May the damned ride their earwigs to hell

and let me not join them,

for why should I covet their pride or in meaness purloin them.

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I don't know the poem but an internet search gives the title of this poem as "Rock Pilgrim" by Herbert Palmer.
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Thanks RevShirls you have saved me a few sleepless nights and will make an elderly neighbour of mine very happy tomorrow when I tell her we've found it.I still haven't found the words but that should be a lot easier now thanks.

That's great, keithlbw. Here is a wee bit more about the poet Herbert Edward Palmer including a list of his books, so perhaps that can help you with your search a bit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Edward_Palmer

You'll find this poem in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse chosen by Philip Larkin, Oxford University Press 1973.
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  Thanks Golem much obliged

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