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A Collection of Poems. By Ernest Radford

Radford, Ernest (fl.1880-1920)

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SHELLEY AT OXFORD

1811 AND 1893

THE MASTER SPEAKS

‘The rebel of eighty years ago
Is the hero of to-day.’
In this memorial none will know
The rebel of eighty years ago.
We Oxford dons, however slow,
Are now at last compelled to say
‘The rebel of eighty years ago
Is the hero of to-day.’