Beginning of summer

The King’s birth-day. To White Hall, where all very gay; and particularly the Prince of Tuscany very fine, and is the first day of his appearing out of mourning, since he come. I heard the Bishop of Peterborough preach but dully; but a good anthem of Pelham’s. Home to dinner, and then with my wife to Hyde Park, where all the evening; great store of company, and great preparations by the Prince of Tuscany to celebrate the night with fire-works, for the King’s birth-day. And so home.

the birth of a pear
out of each anthem
in the park
                        where all
celebrate the night
with fireworks

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 29 May 1669.

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