Some one in Cairo—Cairo, if you please!—
Reports that Britain is arranging Peace.
There's been a meeting in the Pyrenees'.
(The tale's from Yugoslavia and Greece.)
Then Moscow spreads it, very wide and well:
It's heard in Maine, and on Miami Beach.
Was it in vain the Tower of Babel fell?
Is it for this that we defend Free Speech?
January 23, 1944
Notes
This poem first appeared in the Sunday Graphic, a British newspaper.
This version is taken from Light The Lights by A. P. Herbert, published 1945 by Methuen & Co.
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