Inscribed in shaky biro,
With much love on
your 50th anniversity
from
Marnie, Rosemary & Marjorie
New word coinage:
celebration and admiration
for the esoterically qualified
or for the perpetual tertiary
student perhaps?
Anniversity.
From the Latin noun annum.
An annual celebration
at the end of each completed
year of study?
The Golden Treasury
of the Best Songs and Lyrical
Poems in the English Language
Selected and arranged by
Francis Turner Palgrave
with an Introduction and additional
Poems selected and arranged by
C Day Lewis
Poet Laureate
Collins
London and Glasgow
First published, 1861
This edition, 1954
Latest reprint, 1983
Let's assume the last named
the inscriptor. Marjorie,
were the other two your sisters?
Were you the eldest - or the most
in awe of your gainful brother?
Or of another sister,
the academically driven one?
It is to be hoped you suffered
for your bestowal,
no adversity.
bw
26.3.13
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