or Calico Pie to Camelot
On the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins blow
Row us out from Desenzano to your Sirmione row
On this coast of Coromandel shrimps and watercresses grow
There beneath the Roman
Ruins where the purple flowers grow.
1 Edward Lear 's admiration for the poetry of Tennyson was so much a part of his life that the words of master and disciple can be fused without sacrilege, and his own poetry is full of Tennysonian " echoes answering ".'
H. Colin Davis presents an anthology of words and music which traces the relationship between Lear, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Emily Tennyson. Readers
ROSALIND SHANKS , DAVID DAVIS Singer and pianist ANTONY MIALL
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