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TED HUGHES (1930-98)
The Black Rhino
1988RCIN 1008644
This poem was written for The Duke of Edinburgh as President of the World Wildlife Fund (now known as the World Wide Fund for Nature), as a contribution to the Rhino Rescue Appeal of 1987. This manuscript copy of the poem is in Hughes’s hand.
Presented to the Duke of Edinburgh by Ted Hughes, 1988
