"Old England"
By Claude McKay

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Sources

Kingston, Jamaica [and London, England] : Aston W. Gardner & Co., 1912For a complete digital edition of McKay's poetry with editoral discussion, including Songs of Jamaica, see Amardeep Singh's Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1911-1922): A Digital Collection.Facsimile page images sourced from Digital Library of the Caribbean. This digital edition has been transcribed and corrected to accord with the first edition facsimile page images.

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Citation

McKay, Claude. "Old England". Songs of Jamaica, Aston W. Gardner & Co., 1912 , pp 63-65 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthology.lib.virginia.edu/work/McKay/mckay-old-england. Accessed: 2024-05-04T18:10:21.22Z

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Footnotes

t-o-t_Thought. [Jekyll's note]
city_temple_The City Temple is a nonconformist church (a church that doesn't "conform" to Church of England practices) in central London, built in 1874; however, its congregation is believed to have been in existence since perhaps the 1560s (Wikipedia).
missis_Always so called in Jamaica. [Jekyll's note]
min_Mind. [Jekyll's note]