The Motor Bus
What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum...
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus?
Domine, defende nos
Contra hos Motores Bos!
--A.D. Godley (1856-1925)
from a letter to C.R.L.F., 10 Jan. 1914
(I happened upon it in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations)
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