Dear list members,
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 Geoff Maloney said:
GM> Dear All
GM> Can anyone throw light on the lines of poetry that
GM> introduce The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case? I presume that
GM> Kipling wrote these, but they are referenced to
GM> "Confessions" and this suggested to me that the lines
GM> might be from a larger poem or series of poems
GM> entitled "Confessions". Is this the case or are the
GM> five lines the entirety of "Confessions"?
The five lines appear as an isolated item as one of the
'Chapter Headings: Plain Tales from the Hills' in the
'Definitive Verse' [page 506 of the 1940 edition] -
without, by the way, the reference to 'Confessions'. The
same applies in 'Songs from the Books' - page 34 of volume
XXIII of the Bombay Edition.
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Yours sincerely,
Eric J Thompson, Reply to: [log in to unmask]
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