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Thread #113420 Message #2410957
Posted By: Charley Noble
11-Aug-08 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Old Pagoda Anchorage (C. Fox Smith)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Pagoda Anchorage (C. Fox Smith)
Actually Kipling is referring to an entirely different pagoda in his poem "Mandalay," one which overlooks Moulmein Harbour in Burma, not the great pagoda in Mawei, China.
Cheerily,
Charley Noble