London-sonet 27

DAILY'S MUSICAL COMEDY/ GAIETY CHORUS GIRL/ TONKS
CURSE
the flabby sky that can manufacture no snow, but/ can only
drop the sea on us in drizzle like a poem by Mr. Robert Bridges,

CURSE/ the lazy air that cannot stiffen the back of the SERPENTINE,
or put Aquatic steel half way down the MANCHESTER CANAL.
But ten years ago we saw distinctly both snow and/ ice here.
May some vulgarly inventive, but useful person, arise,

and restore to us the necessary BLIZZARDS!
LET US ONCE MORE WEAR THE ERMINE
OF THE NORTH.

WE BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF
THIS USEFUL LITTLE CHEMIST
IN OUR MIDST!

(skrevet af fra første del af manifestet i fascimile-udgave af første nummer (af kun 2) af BLAST, købt ved vorticsime-udstillingen i Tate Britain)