Loyalty and love she lavished free On lowly friends and well-born, Like Murdoch, Melba and like me, She was marvellously Melbourne
The ‘she’ is actress Coral Browne (1913-1991); the ‘me’ is Barry Humphries; the quatrain is from Humphries’ eulogy – or elegy – A Chorale for Coral, which was ‘Very Privately Printed’ in 1992 after her funeral. In his memoirs More Please, which c ... (read more)