And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait
Because I have a luncheon date.
Source: In London Church Times, 25 May 1984.
-- John Betjeman, (Apr 6 1906-1984), English poet, broadcaster, and writer on architecture; He was the English Poet Laureate, 1972-1984; nostalgic and wary of change, he preferred the countryside to the city, and was impassioned in his abhorrence of modern architecture.