The Last Tea by Higgins
Swiftly fled each honey'd hour
Spent with military male;
Metropole became a bower
Cecil an Arcadian vale.
A rather mournful female clerical worker or secretary takes her last cup of tea of her wartime job. The implication is that she has enjoyed working with handsome military men (!) and the rhyme alludes to the number of London hotels that were requisitioned for military purposes during the Great War
Picture No
10837831
Media ID
46105395
Size
3600px x 5397px
(3.3MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Reginald Higgins in The Bystander, 5 February 1919
Date
1919
