David Richards points out that it appears in Rk's early collection of
parodies, Echoes,.
On 14 Sep 2009, at 15:45, Meredith Dixon wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:14 +0100, Alastair Wilson wrote:
Dear Mary
As regards your query, I agree that the Emerson parody (if you can
call it that) is unlike Kipling -
Well, if it isn't Kipling's, it was good enough to fool the editors of
the Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse, in which volume you
will find it on pages 183 and 184.
Unfortunately the book does not list prior sources.
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