flatters house

flatters house

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

 In furrows where the seagulls stole

The seed that was then sown by man,
To a rabbit hutch, and a milkman's bell
That rang by the gate and sang.

And includes a reference to his birth:

Naked and young the flesh that was born
Inside the left window.

Bonus Spot! On the country lane that runs behind the house is the ornate cement bridge where Bernie and his brother Tony played "Pooh-Sticks" with their beloved grandfather Poppy. This activity was chronicled in Taupin's 1988 autobiograhy, A Cradle of Haloes, and immortalized in a 1970 poem entitled "To a Grandfather," which goes in part:

There is only one who haunts the corridors of time.
Who took two children,
Hand-in-hand down the lengthy lanes. . . ,
Exploring things so long ago,
Like some misty memory from another land.
And we will always remember him.

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flatters house