Clearly written by an Oxford don, a classical scholar, but I don't know who.
If you did Latin at school, you should find this delicious. If not, you poor soul, you never knew the delights of Kennedy's Eating Primer and the mysteries of fero ferre tuli latum.
What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes that smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum!
Implet wheresoe'er they ply
Terror me Motoris Bi :
Bo Motore clamitabo
Ne Motore caedar a Bo
-Dative be or Ablative
So tho only let us live:
Whither shall thy victims flee?
Spare us, Spare us, Motor Be!
Thus I sang ; and still anigh
Came in hordes Motores Bi,
Et complebat omne forum
Copia Motorum Borum .
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus ?
Domine , defende nos
Contra hos Motores Bos !
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