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An aye for the ladies; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20070103
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Byline: JAMES BLACK;CHARLES LEGGE

QUESTION Who wrote the lines 'Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?

/Over the sea./Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving?/All that love me'?

THE poem was written by Richard Monckton Milnes, (1809-1885). He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he made friends with Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Makepeace Thackeray.

Raised to Lord Houghton in 1863, Milnes was active in government, before resigning from the Tories under Robert Peel over the repeal of the Corn Laws, and joined Palmerston who had left the Tories ...

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