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Eddi’s Service
By Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling’s poem about St Wilfrid’s chaplain and an unusual Christmas congregation.
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Viola Draws a Blank
By William Shakespeare
Viola tries to tell Orsino, Duke of Illyria, that his beloved Olivia is not the only woman deserving of his attention.
45
‘The Overland Mail’
A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.
46
Pangur Bán
By Anonymous (Irish Monk)
A 9th century Irish monk scribbled some verses about a beloved cat into his copy book.
47
‘Recessional’
A heartfelt plea for humility at the height of Britain’s Empire.
48
The Nightingale and the Glow Worm
By William Cowper
A kind of Aesop’s Fable in verse, about mutual respect among those with different talents.
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