The Queen's Silver Jubilee

bookmark woven in blue background

bookmark woven in maroon background

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The
Queen's
Silver
Jubilee
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
EIIR
 
 
 
 
1952
1977
 
May this old land revive and be
Again a star set in the sea.
A Kingdom fit for such as She
With glories yet undreamt.
                                     JOHN MASEFIELD 

these bookmarks were issued in a special folder, the inside right panel holding the woven bookmark, the left hand panel having a poem by John Masefield, The Poet Laureate:
Note: this particular version has had additional words printed at the top of the card, viz:
 

CITY OF COVENTRY
FREEMEN'S GUILD
25th Annual Ball
 

 

image of inside left hand panel having a poem
by John Masefield, The Poet Laureate:
 
 

 

words printed on card
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
LINES ON THE CORONATION
OF OUR GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN
 

This Lady whom we crown was born
When buds were green upon the thorn
And earliest cowslips showed;
When still unseen by mortal eye
One cuckoo tolled his "Here am I,"
And over little glints of sky,
In rain-pools whence the trickles flowed,
The small snipe clattered wing,
The swallows were upon the road,
Nought but the cherry-blossom snowed,
The promise was on all fields sowed
Of Earth's beginning Spring.
 
Now that we crown Her as our Queen
May love keep all her pathways green,
May sunlight bless her days;
May the fair Spring of her beginning
Ripen to all things worth the winning.
The very surest of our praise
That moral men attempt,
May this old land revive and be
Again a star set in the sea,
A Kingdon fit for such as She
With glories yet undreamt.
 

JOHN MASEFIELD

Poet Laureate                    

 
 
 
 
 
 
Reproduced by kind permission of
The Times Newspapers, and the
Society of Authors.

Of card: cm deep by cm wide
Of tapestry: cm deep by cm wide