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Thread #24426   Message #3307947
Posted By: Lighter
13-Feb-12 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling)
The guy wants to ditch London and head back to Burma to spend the rest of his life with his true love.

Obviously he got way over his racism.

Though not his tendency to idealize the exotic. And those are just two things that make it a great poem.