"Gehazi", a single poem by Rudyard Kipling - written in 1915 and first formally published in his collection of verse, The Years Between, in 1919 [Methuen, London], is considered the BEST hate poem in the entire poetical canon of English language. 1 All about the poem "Gehazi": http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_gehazi_moore.htm 2 All about Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading 3 From the NEW YORK TIMES, January 6, 1921, Thursday Lord Reading conferred with Lloyd George yesterday morning on the offer made to him of the appointment as Viceroy of India. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E5D6143CE533A25755C0A9679C946095D6CF 4 From http://www.iht.com/articles/2000/11/22/edold.t_43.php LONDON - Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, recently had a narrow escape from death, according to private cables received at London to-day [Nov. 21]. It was reported that Lord Reading, while golfing at Calcutta, was setting a line for his putt on the eighteenth green when a large hooded cobra raised itself up ready to strike from a short distance at the back of the Viceroy. Before it could move, however, Lord Reading's secretary rushed forward and killed the snake with a golf club. 5 Isaacs Week, from Time, dated Monday, Jan. 19, 1931 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,740874,00.html?iid=chix-sphere ======== ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India