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A Toast: On the 68th Birthday of the Late John Gawsworth (1912-1970)

Whatever else he was, recall He was a Bookman after all, And at his quietest, a poet too. Redonda…wine…the sordid rest Ignore for now—extol his best! For there was good in Gawsworth, as in you.

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