Sir John Collings Squire

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    Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
    Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
    —Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)

    When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
    Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
    —Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)

    There now are no Squire Westerns as of old;
    And our Sophias are not so emphatic,
    But fair as then, or fairer to behold.
    We have no accomplish’d blackguards, like Tom Jones,
    But gentlemen in stays, as stiff as stones.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)