It was most powerfully expressed in a poem that Rudyard Kipling
had published in The Times that morning.
Far called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre.
Victoria was not the only person to suspect that her Diamond Jubilee, for all its colourful triumph, had been, as she put it herself, her ‘swan-song’.
It was most powerfully expressed in a poem that Rudyard Kipling had published in The Times that morning. Far called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre. Victoria was not the only person to suspect that her Diamond Jubilee, for all its colourful triumph, had been, as she put it herself, her ‘swan-song’.