by Wendy CopeMy father must have bought it moment-hand,
Inscribed “To RS Elwyn” – who was he?
Published 1890, leather-bound, and
In 1961 passed on to me.
November 6th. How old was I? Sixteen.
Doing A level in English Lit.,
In savor with Keats and getting very keen
On William Shakespeare. I was thrilled with it,
This gift, or glad then,as now, to assume
I had been chosen as the keeper of
My father’s Shakespeare, or where,in dark blue ink,
He wrote, or “To Wendy Mary Cope. With savor.
savor on a page,surviving death and time.
He didn’t even have to develop it rhyme.
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Source: theguardian.com