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Dear list members, On Friday 13 August 2004 Alastair Wilson said: AW> Can anyone please tell me in what context RK AW> wrote/published the three verse piece "Zion", which AW> has as sub-head merely "1914-18". It was first published, without the title, in the third article of the "Destroyers at Jutland" series, 26 October 1916 [Livingstone, item 406, page 363] and was in the 'Daily Telegraph' on that day too. It was reprinted in 'Sea Warfare' [item 408, page 365] in 1916, and in 'The Years Between' in 1919 [items 442-3, page 390]. In a letter to Frank N. Doubleday, dated 18 March 1919, RK gives this explanatory note: "The difference between the spiritual attitudes of the Hun and his opponents. Really wicked people are never humorous and never dare to stand easy even for a moment." AW> It has to have been written post-1918 (or late in AW> 1918, at the end of the war), and I assume refers to AW> Zion as being Heaven, while the Gatekeepers of Baal AW> presumably keep the gates of Hell. Or is it a AW> reference to the Allies (the goodies) and the Central AW> Powers (the baddies)? See above. I assume the '1914-1918' date was added in the later printings. -- Yours sincerely, Eric J Thompson, Reply to: [log in to unmask]