Poem by Thomas Hood

On Lieutenant Eyre’s Narrative of the Disasters at Cabul

A sorry tale, of sorry plans,
Which this conclusion grants,
That Affghan clans had all the Khans
And we had all the cant’s.

1. Written in Keats' “Endymion”
2. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy
3. To My Daughter on Her Birthday
4. The Two Peacocks of Bedfont
5. Ballad (She's up and gone, the graceless girl)

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