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Graves: Philatelist Royal
So he told them again
That Philately's reign,
So mild and humane,
Would surely last longer
Would surely prove stronger
Than the Glory of Greece,
Than the Grandeur of Rome.
It brought goodwill and peace
Wherever it found a home.
It was more democratic,
More full, more ecstatic,
Than the Bible, the Bottle,
The Complete Works of Aristotle,
And worthierer and betterer
And etceterier and etcetera.
The Philatelist Royal
Was always too loyal
To say what he honestly
Thought of Philately.
ROBERT GRAVES
FRAGMENT FROM THE ELIZABETHANS
PARACELSUS (entering hurriedly):
lam become a frightful Bloody murtherer:
Meeting my grandam in the buttery hatch,
I hackt, forsooth, and hewed her jauntilie,
And cast her reeking fragments on the air.
(Exit, pursued by a Cow.)
W. BRIDGES-ADAMS
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