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Poem by Thomas Hood


On Lieutenant Eyre’s Narrative of the Disasters at Cabul


A sorry tale, of sorry plans,
Which this conclusion grants,
That Affghan clans had all the Khans
And we had all the cant’s.



Thomas Hood


Thomas Hood's other poems:
  1. The Departure of Summer
  2. Stanzas (Is there a bitter pang for love removed)
  3. The Two Peacocks of Bedfont
  4. Ballad (She's up and gone, the graceless girl)
  5. Written in Keats' “Endymion”


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