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The Pococke Cedar

He
travelled
far and wide,
studied Arabic :
A famous orientalist :
An Oxford scholar and doctor of Divinity.

Here
was
a man,
the Rector
of Childrey parish,
the Reverend Edward Pococke.

He
planted
in the year
sixteen forty two,
a cedar of Lebanon seed.

Now
the
oldest
cedar tree
in this pleasant land
still grows in the Old Rectory
in the delightful village of Childrey, Oxfordshire.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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