Danny Deever
...that Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem "Danny Deever" caused the academic David Masson to cry "Here's literature! Here's literature at last!" to his students, and that it was later described as "Teddy Roosevelt's favourite song"?
...that <a href="./Rudyard_Kipling" id="mwA48" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a>'s <a href="./1890" id="mwA5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1890">1890</a> poem "<b id="mwA5E"><a href="./Danny_Deever" id="mwA5I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Danny Deever">Danny Deever</a></b>" caused the academic <a href="./David_Masson" id="mwA5M" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="David Masson">David Masson</a> to cry "Here's literature! Here's literature at last!" to his students, and that it was later described as "<a href="./Theodore_Roosevelt" id="mwA5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Teddy Roosevelt's</a> favourite song"?