On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Fred Lerner wrote:
> "Kipling seems to be saying that Tennyson wrote ANOTHER poem about the
> fate of the survivors that made the British public ashamed of leaving >them
to destitution, but I can't find any such poem by Tennyson.
I think Kipling invented the story of the Brigade's meeting with Tennyson,
and therefore invented Tennyson's response.
After all, the last verse is an appeal for funds, and if Tennyson had really
already made one Kipling's efforts would have been superfluous.
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