29 APRIL 1938, Page 6

Writing last week away from references (as might perhaps have

been divined from internal evidence) I quoted a couplet of Tennyson's not precisely as Tennyson wrote it. What he did write was : LG • • bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North."

His version may have been better or worse than mine, but at least it was his own.

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