<P> Eithe genoimen...would I were, (Forgive me shade of Rupert Brooke) An object fit to claim her look, Oh! Would I were a racket press'd, With hard excitement to her breast! </P> <P> (John Betjeman, first published in A Few Late Chrysanthemums, 1954) </P> <P> Ian Moncrieffe concludes his epilogue to W. Stanley Moss's Ill Met by Moonlight with extracts from a wartime letter written to him by Patrick Leigh Fermor from a Greek valley, where he was engaged in guerrilla operations against the Nazi invaders . PLF ended his letter with the words έίθε γενοίμην . He wishes that he and IM could be together, at one or other of their firesides, enjoying one another's company rather than relying on erratic correspondence during a time of hostilities . IM starts his epilogue with another quotation from Brooke's "Menelaus and Helen", and one might conclude that quoting from Brooke was a vogue pastime for the band of well - educated young officers based in Egypt, whose best - known exploit was the capture of a German general in Crete in the spring of 1944, and successfully taking him off the island to Alexandria (the subject of Moss's book). </P> <P> An episode of the Croft and Perry sitcom Dad's Army is titled Is There Honey Still for Tea? </P>

And is there honey still for tea poem