This is really a puzzler. My dad remembers this poem, but not the name. I took some of the words and listed them in a concordance, supposedly of everythng he wrote, at a website and, so far, keep coming up with a blank. No "Frankie's", "Dunkirk", "Mardyk Fort".....could it be the song paraphrases a poem of his.

I really love Kipling's works, so am just as curious, if not more, as Barry to figure it out.

Thanks for the words of the song, though, Matthew B.

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