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The Jubilee Of A Magazine |
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Title: The Jubilee Of A Magazine Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy] (To the Editor)
Yes; your up-dated modern page - That reaches backward fifty years - Here, on your cover, never tires Each wills to work in ancient style The steel-roped plough now rips the vale, But if we ask, what has been done Beyond mechanic furtherance--what Despite your volumes' gentle aim - Had custom tended to prolong, And best invention been retained [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |