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Document Title: There's a Bard of the Future named Watts
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1881
Type of Manuscript: holograph fair copy

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  • There's a Bard of the Future
  • named Watts
  • Who is dealing in gunpowder plots;
  • So that Swinburne the Bard
  • With his own petard
  • May in due time be hoisted
  • by Watts.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 37aa-1869.blms.rad.xml
Copyright: By permission of the British Library