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Best Syllabled Poems


Sesquipedality: Edward Capern At Boscobel House
... [into] the oaken box in which the hunted King was secreted....
	Capern essayed to descend...
	- Elihu Burritt, Walks in the Black Country (1868)

Suppose a poet-postman, full of good Victorian
Embonpoint, should chance to
Step into this house of hiding – a nook unknown to
Questing Roundhead spies –...

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Book: Reflection on the Important Things