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SHELLEY AT OXFORD
1811 AND 1893
THE MASTER SPEAKS
‘The rebel of eighty years agoIs 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.’
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