Year of publication 1960 - Fell and Rock Climbing Club

JEKYLL AND HYDE 89While hateful Hyde is all alert our happiness to fetter,The gentle Jekyll will exertHis influence to allay the hurt;Thus, after Hyde has had your shirt, you borrow Jekyll's sweater.So gentle Jekyll's kindness will rout the hateful Hyde's endeavour,And of that there is no manner of doubt,No probable, possible shadow of doubt, no possible doubtwhatever.Now Hyde has plumbed, we all agree, the depths of degradation.He did it so efficiently,That Her Most Gracious MajestyPresented him with the O.B.E. for preventing tax evasion.And why She did that, I could never make out, despite my bestendeavour,And of that there is no manner of doubt,No probable, possible shadow of doubt, no possible doubtwhatever.But Jekyll, he was most annoyed, and showed his great displeasure.Now Hyde has joined the unemployed,His powers of evil quite destroyed,While Jekyll's joy is unalloyed as a gentleman of leisure.Which proves that Jekyll's a very good scout, as kind as he isclever,And of that there is no manner of doubt,No probable, possible, shadow of doubt, no possible doubtwhatever.J.H.Sung by John Hirst at the Annual Dinner on the 3lst October, 1959