Norman Douglas:
"For the benefit of future generations it should be said that not long ago certain ominous fissures appeared in this edifice; they were attributed to ceaseless and heavy traffic; experts were summoned, commissions appointed, and costly repairs undertaken. An awkward discovery, for no architect will admit that St. Paul's could be shaked by motor-lorries unless, like certain other London churches and English cathedrals in general, it were a jerry-built affair.

"This poem is open to grave suspicion. In the first place, the Dean of St. Paul's is necessarily a gentleman, and no gentleman says "them cracks." Secondly: what was the Bishop of Lincoln doing there? Thirdly: the expression attributed to His Lordship is too emphatic to be consistent with good manners.