,??? copes with the problem of writing on a contemporary disaster by modeling itself on Hardy???s poem.) Published scarcely a month after the event, in the May 14, 1912 program of the ???Dramatic and Operatic Matinee in Aid of the ???Titanic??? Disaster Fund??? given at Covent Garden (an event at which such celebrities as Sarah Bernhardt and Anna Pavlova performed), the poem encapsulates the essen