e/The Absent-Minded Beggar

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has gloss	eng: The Absent-Minded Beggar is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, famously set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. The song was written as part of an appeal by the Daily Mail to raise money for soldiers fighting in the South African War (sometimes known as the Boer War) and their families. The fund was the first such charitable effort for a war.
lexicalization	eng: The Absent Minded Beggar
lexicalization	eng: The absent-minded beggar
instance of	c/1899 poems

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