Card of Thanks to the Press + 

It is folly now to aim + 

Or to seek for distant fame, + 

But rest content if we can claim + 

Something of a local name. + 

On the pleasant banks of Thame, + 

Because in simple strains we sung + 

The glories of this country young. + 

Of cows, and milk, and cream and cheese + 

And of fat steers sent o’er the seas, + 

Of horses plowing land with ease, + 

Of hogs and sheep and hens and bees, + 

Themes worthy of our songs and glees. + 