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Dr. Cyril Norwood, former headmaster of Harrow School, Italian soldiers, it is announc-speaking recently before the Poe- ed, are in future to be severely punished for using bad language, try Society, pleaded that English poetry might be exempted from since the War Office wishes to school examinations. Where those stamp out swearing. This seems

include, as they often do, entirely to flout the tradition order of things. Except Bargees, origined composition, the fishwives, and, of course, the fion would certainly prove a navy (all three connected wiboon to budding poets, for the blue water) no one is supposed muse is an exacting mistress, and to come near the military for it is hard to satisfy both the mis forcible language. To "swear like tress and the master at once- a trooper has passed into a pro

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From ancient times it has so. "Our armies swore terribly apt to ignore the clock; while in Flanders cried my Uncle Thomas, the rhymer, at the next Toby. And in the twentieth desk, grinds out a goodly quen- century they repeated their tity of doggerel, which, if it does eighteenth century performances not land him on top of Parnas Ir Shakespeare's day the sol

sus, may well take him some way was "full of strange caths" up the class. This is no matter, the plays of the period swear of course, but poets of tender words are as frequent as indel years are liable to identify off- cacies. The story is told ofacial marking with merit literary man of last century who, fusion that it is just as well for losing his temper, flung at a Lon- them not to carry into maturity. don-cabman al the

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