‘The Oak’ – An Earl of Warwick’s Poem on Trafalgar Day

In celebration of Trafalgar Day, held each year on the 21st October, here is a suitably apt poem from the 2nd Earl of Warwick’s poetry manuscript. Playing on the illusion of William Cowper’s famous lines on the Oak, memorialising Nelson’s death is clearly the subject of these lines. The Oak Near to this stone which……