7 DECEMBER 1912, Page 36

"VARIOUS."

[TO THE EDITOE OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The name of the poem may be forgotten, but the poet is not. He was Richard Monckton Milnes. I venture to think, however, that the following is the correct version One day in September, a Sabbath morn, I shot a hen pheasant in standing corn Without a licence—'twere hard to plan Such a series of crimes against God and man !"

Note "without a licence."—I am, Sir, &c., N.

London.