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To: Retrofitted

I was going to comment the same. Kipling wrote the poem because his son was killed in WWI by the Germans. I don’t think he would like the word “English” changed to “Saxon” (a German tribe who gave their name to three German states; Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Niedersachsen).


9 posted on 06/04/2021 1:19:16 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Hiddigeigei

To say Kipling wrote “THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON” is a lie, a canard that completely reverses the intent of what Kipling wrote. Who published this and ascribed it to Kipling should be ashamed, and I am ashamed and very sorry to see it here on Free Republic.


10 posted on 06/04/2021 2:10:07 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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