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To James First Bishop of Shrewsbury on the 25th Year of his Episcopate July 28. 1876
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Though no high-hung bells or din
Of braggart bugles cry it in—
What is sound? Nature’s round
Makes the Silver Jubilee.
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Five and twenty years have run
Since sacred fountains to the sun
Sprang, that but now were shut,
Showering Silver Jubilee.
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Feasts, when we shall fall asleep,
Shrewsbury may see others keep;
None but you this her true,
This her Silver Jubilee.
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Not today we need lament
Your wealth of life is some way spent:
Toil has shed round your head
Silver but for Jubilee.
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Then for her whose velvet vales
Should have pealed with welcome, Wales,
Let the chime of a rhyme
Utter Silver Jubilee.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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