My mother's father taught ...

My mother\'s father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay\'s \'Lays of Ancient Rome.\' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I\'d be Horatius keeping the bridge.
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.
 Bernie Taupin

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