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Raise a glass to Yuri Gagarin

A short verse marking the 80th birthday of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin – the first man in space – who was born on March 9th 1934. He died in 1968. A brave man.

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Verse.org.uk likes to mark significant moments in public life with a short verse - usually in Clerihew form. We've tightened our poetic belt and cut everything right back to the bare essentials. Every verse on this site takes up fewer than 140 characters, so feel free to tweet them to your friends.

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