I found this stanza from a poem on the delightfully cute but thoughtful blog operated by someone tagged with the equally cute but thoughtful name—Kirbanita.
And who was that elegant feller,
They said, in the shiny gear?
The things they said about Gabriel
Were hardly fit to hear.
I must say, those four lines rank up there with Genet's lines about the soldier who is to come.
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I googled on the third line of the verse and found the whole poem -- even a version that seems to be the whole poem plus additional lines that bring it into the television age. It's "Ballad of the Breadman" by Charles Causley, if you're interested.
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