"Danny Deever" by Rudyard Kipling (poetry reading)

[solarisqs]

Thanks for this, love your rendition.

Scarey stuff still

[thallassocracy]

Given the enormous popularity of this 1890 poem (still a popular recitation at wedding receptions (!) in the early 1960's) Oscar Wilde must have had half an eye on it when he was writing the Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Kipling pushes Flaxman under our noses; Wilde keeps Wooldridge from ever quite appearing.

Wooldridge is the one I remember in nightmares.