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Strafford,
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin. It is said to have been an impromptu performance, and to have been so little valued by the author that he hesitated about its inclusion in
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Bells and Pomegranates. It was inserted at the last moment, in the third number, which was short of
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Some one (anonymous, but whom I take to be Mr. Nettleship) has publicly alluded to his possession of a rival poem (entitled, simply,
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Hamelin ) by Robert Browning the elder, and of a letter which he had sent to a friend along with the verses, in which he writes:
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Before I knew that Robert had begun the story of the 'Rats' I had contemplated a tale on the same subject, and proceeded with it as far as you see, but, on hearing that Robert had a similar one on hand, I desisted. This must have been in 1842, for it was in that year that the third part of _Bells and Pomegranates_ was published. In 1843, however, he finished it. Browning's
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Pied Piper