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On this day: April 10th

  • Birth of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (1647)
  • Birth of Æ (George William Russell; 1867)
  • Birth of Laurence Binyon (1869)
  • Death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882)
  • Death of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1909)
  • Death of Alfred Comyn Lyall (1911)
  • Death of Henry Van Dyke (1933)

Random Poem of the Day

There was an Old Person of Nice

Lear, Edward
1There was an old person of Nice,
2Whose associates were usually Geese.
3They walked out together, in all sorts of weather.
4That affable person of Nice!

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