Mandalay (poem)
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title:
Mandalay (poem)
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"Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India. The protagonist is a Cockney working-class soldier, back in grey, restrictive London, recalling the time he felt free and had a Burmese girlfriend, now unattainably far away. The poem became well known, especially after it was set to music by Oley Speaks in 1907, and was admired by Kipling's c
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1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandalay_(poem)
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2006-10-04T02:51:27Z
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2024-09-09T18:19:34Z
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