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Thread #145759 Message #3372980
Posted By: Charley Noble
06-Jul-12 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Ballad of the Bolivar (Kipling)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ballad of the Bolivar (Kipling)
Q-
Portsmouth makes sense in terms of a regular route to Bilbao. But why then does the poem begin with "We put out from Sunderland loaded down with rails"? I can't find a Sunderland anywhere near Portsmouth.