First Newspaper 1621
In sixteen-hundred-twenty-one
Our first news-sheet began its run;
For twenty years ’twas going strong
Then the first Censor came along.
This journal cribbing from the Dutch
Lacked the smart journalistic touch;
And also photographic views,
‘Sporting pars’ and ‘Stop-press News.’
THAT QUIET MAN, KNOWN AS THE EARLY PURITAN.
Cotton 1630
COTTON first came from India’s shore
In sixteen-thirty, less or more;
Where for three thousand years it grew,
Also in Egypt and Peru.
Grim reading is the note confessing
Gangs went out for Navy pressing,