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...terrible Piedmont Easter massacre (1655) moved Oliver Cromwell to decree a public fast to show English sympathy for the Waldensians. Cromwell warned the Duke of Savoy that if such a thing happened again the British fleet would bombard Nice. The massacre also brought from John Milton his thunderous sonnet...
...sonnet if you like - I'll give you one To be cross-questioned ere its truth is solv...
...with trembling fingers, drank in the intoxicating colors of beet and carrot, rolled the poetry over on their tongues. While winter winds whistled outside, they luxuriated in a gentle world where all tomatoes grow to unblemished perfection, where eight-inch cucumbers are midgets, where every brussels sprout is a sonnet and bugs are never seen...
...Sellers, former Superintendent, who once gruffly declared: "Is the fleet ... to be judged by the standards of the liberal arts, or by hits per gun per minute? . . . Let us be concerned more whether the Naval officer is a first-class fighting man than whether he can compose a sonnet...
There are only two verse offerings scattered among this month's prose: a somewhat diffuse, and so far as meaning is concerned, opaque sonnet by marvin Barrett, and a very clever parody of Eliot's "A Cooking Egg" by Dunstan Thompson, entitled "A Baked Apple." It is, in fact, something more than clever, but how much more is a matter for debate...