Social Commentaries
On Lieutenant Eyre's Narrative of the Disasters at Cabul
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
A sorry tale, of sorry plans,
Which this conclusion grants,
That Affghan clans had all the Khans
And we had all the cant's.
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Hood, Thomas. “On Lieutenant Eyre's Narrative of the Disasters at Cabul.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/146/.
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Hood, Thomas. “On Lieutenant Eyre's Narrative of the Disasters at Cabul.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/146/.
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