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1st June, 2020 – The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made..."
From the show:
On this day: 1st June, 1785, King George extends a grudging hand of friendship to John Adams, first US ambassador to the Court of St James.
On this day: 1st June, 61, the defeat of the Boudiccan revolt by Suetonius Paullinus (more on Rendham's head of Claudius)
On this day: 1st June, 1907, Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine was born in Earlsdon, Coventry
Music to wake you up – Bring a Little Water, Sylvie by Lonnie Donegan
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