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Posted by Nana Wang on July 22, 19101 at 23:59:53:
i'm not an English native speaker and now trying to translate "church going" by Philip Larkin. can anyone tell me the meanings of "ruin-bibber" and "grown-and-bands"? thank you!
the stanza is this:
A shape less recognisable each week
A purpose more obscure. I wonder who
Will be the last the very last to seek
This place for what it was; one of the crew
That tap and jot and know what rood-lofts were?
Some ruin-bibber randy for antique
Or Christmas-addict counting on a whiff
Of grown-and-bands and organ-pipes and myrrh?
Or will he be my representative
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