The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses

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Title: The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses
Author: J. C. Manning
Release Date: March 15, 2007 [EBook #20764]
Language: English
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THE DEATH OF SAUL:
AND OTHER
EISTEDDFOD PRIZE POEMS
AND
MISCELLANEOUS VERSES.
BY
J. C. MANNING
(CARL MORGANWG.SWANSEA:
J. C. MANNING, 9, CASTLE STREET.
AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.
PRICE SIX SHILLINGS.
1877.DEATH OF SAUL
AND
OTHER POEMS.THE EISTEDDFOD COMMITTEE
AND THE
"DEATH OF SAUL."
Being restricted by the Wrexham Eisteddfod Committee to 200 lines, I was obliged to lop away from the bulk of the
following poem just sufficient for their requirements. I have always declaimed, from a physical point of view, against the
pernicious influence of light-lacing, and this being so, it was not likely I could go at once and mentally encase my delicate
muse, for a permanency, in a straight waistcoat, at the behest of any committee in the world. What would she have
thought of me? If, therefore, the committee, or any member of it, should by chance observe that the ...