A friend wrote me as follows:
"I am sure you are familiar with this poem. My question refers to this stanza:
The poor little army departed, limping and lean and forlorn.
And the heart of the Master-singer grew hot with "the scorn of scorn."
And he wrote for them wonderful verses that swept the land like flame,
Till the fatted souls of the English were scourged with the thing called Shame.
"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. And I don't think Kipling could mean his own poem, as he wouldn't describe himself so grandiosely. Do you know anything about the reference?"
I don't -- though I do recall seeing something about this, perhaps even on this list -- but I told her I'd ask my colleagues here for their help.
Fred Lerner, D.L.S.
Information Scientist
National Center for PTSD
VA Medical Center (116D)
White River Junction, Vermont 05009 USA
phone (802) 296 5132
fax (802) 296 5135
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Research Associate in Psychiatry
Dartmouth Medical School
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