When I visited,
in 1986, Cambridge’s
Magdalen College
(proud that I knew
how to pronounce it),
excited, at last, having
come so far,
with great expectation,
to see the Library
assembled and read
by Samuel Pepys,
it was closed,
for the month,
after 300 years.
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