By an Anonymous Bard Edited by Privata Editor’s prefatory note: In a university library that has not yet cancelled my privileges, I was recently working in a small windowless room that the staff had allocated to me, far from the eyes of students who might be triggered by my presence. The room also stored donated books and manuscripts that awaited the staff’s decision to be shelved and catalogued or to be burned. In one of the dusty boxes of donations, I found
And since you yet before the paywall stand,
I hereby dedicate "a Splendid Shilling."
Spend it, bard, but not all in one place.
Brilliant!
Brilliant
Arma virumque cano-
D.C.-ae qui primus ab oris