Today, on National Poetry Day, we celebrate the former Poet Laureate and Old Shirburnian, Cecil Day-Lewis CBE.
In 1947, Cecil Day-Lewis wrote a poem about visiting the annual Sherborne Chrysanthemum Show during his first term at Sherborne School:
The Chrysanthemum Show by Cecil Day-Lewis
Posted 4 October 2018 by Sherborne School Archives.
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