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Heroical Verses on the Occasion of the Fifth Anniversary of the Hall Writers’ Forum by A Gentleman
from Now We Are Five
Heroical Verses on the Occasion of the Fifth Anniversary of the Hall Writers’ Forum
So - five years on and fresh as if new-made Vigorous, strong, the years mere half-decade, HWF is as yet but in its prime, Rose-tinted platform not half as old as Time.
Hail! Ye Felicitators of the Forum Empowering mortals, lesser, to post for ’em. Hail! Scribes and scribblers all, both sexes, (Or p’raps ‘neither’ added, lest that vexes), For all wisdom and poetics here enshrined, For politics and puffery whereso’er mined, Hail! Art and Music also those shy virgins Who trip out on the stage with but scant urgin’ (A rhyme I owe the Virgin Sturgeon poem I confess But without it and heptameter all would be mess), Hail! Like wise the critic, firm but fair, Prepared to say that comma’s “too much” there, The rhyme could be improved, the ending changed, Yet all so lightly done no-one’s estranged. Far from’t. Suggestions sought and freely offer’d Are part of what we’d seek from any Prof; err’d We may have, but the light of reason (Tempered by encouragement in good season) Is what the Forum was, and is, and will be For. Huzzah! Doff your cap or mayhap trilby As I sing out three cheers for th’ HWF That make the welkin ring, e’en for the deaf, And may the fanfare sound for the Forum’s Lucy, Loud and long from Launceston, to the Vale of Pewsey.
A Gentleman
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