George Thomas Lanigan wrote clever verse, of which The Akhoond of Swat is among the best.
A THRENODY
“The Akhoond of Swat is dead,”—London Papers of January 22, 1878.
What, what, what,
What’s the news from Swat?
Sad news,
Bad news,
Cometh by cable led
Through the Indian Ocean’s bed,
Through the Persian Gulf, the Red
Sea and the Med-