Doggerel Ditties:in the style of Ogden Nash

Barbara Hepworth once wrote this:
‘Perhaps what one wants to say is formed in childhood, and the rest of one’s life is spent in trying to say it.’
In her case, it was through great contemporary sculptures. In my case? Well, my first English schoolmaster judged:
‘Flippant boy. That’s what you are. Flippant. About serious matters and great human
endeavours. All I can hope is that for your sake you will grow out of it.’
At this time, my hero was A.A.Milne’s Sir Brian. I walked up and down repeating...