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November 28, 2018 by nomdeplume707, posted in Bon mots, History, literature, poetry

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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