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Stamps - the Subject of Poetry |
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Stamps have been the subject of poetry since the street ballads of Paris, 1653 extolled the Petite Poste of Renouard de Villayer. In 1842, the first poetic reference to stamp collectin was published by Colonel Sibthorpe in Punch: When was a folly so pestilent hit upon, As folks running mad to collect every spit upon, Post Office stamp that 's been soil'd and been writ upon? Oh for Swift! such a subject his spleen to emit upon.
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