In Big Ben's shadow on a day wan with grief
Amid hollers and cries and general disbelief
Soldiers and civilians, royals and commoners
Assumed their customary positions
Awaiting the pendulum's swing
And the shift in dispositions.
Cranes above, craning below
The Cenotaph kept vigil over the to and fro
As Bobbies banked overtime
Looking for crimes that had already …
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