Word: masefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield's twelve-line ode, "On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,"* Queen Elizabeth II returned to England last week from her four-week, 7,000-mile visit to four West African countries. With her the Queen brought some six tons of luggage and gifts, including a baby crocodile, reportedly with divine powers, for Prince Andrew. Behind her she had left a residue of good feeling toward the Crown and Commonwealth-as well as her huband, Prince Philip, who was attending the Tanganyikan independence ceremonies. (Perhaps...
...character from that of a report in the Times to that of advertising copy." That Which Slept. Presumably more interested than the Daily Worker in a clear, understandable Bible, scholars and clerics in the U.S. and Britain generally sounded more favorable. The new version, wrote Poet Laureate John Masefield, "cannot fail to move the living world. The work, greatly planned, has been manfully done. That which slept has been awakened." There was almost unanimous praise for much of the swift, modern prose, for the clear insights of such passages as Christ's gentle rebuke to his mother at Cana...
...Queen's huge ceremonial standard was unfurled, and to all ships and shore stations the Admiralty sent a signal: "Birth of a son to H.M. Queen Elizabeth announced. Splice the main brace." As messages poured in from governments all over the world, 81-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield worked over a bit of verse that began: "O child descended from a line of kings...