other people's nifty fanwork

In my ACD Holmes/BBC Sherlock crossover fic Not Yet Dead, I had a throwaway reference to a poem Kipling had written in that 'verse called "Be A Man as Watson Was". I tossed around the idea of writing some of that poem but never did anything with it.

Enter M. Vernet, a contributor at McMurdo's Camp, who wrote a lovely poem in the comments and kindly gave me permission to repost here. I apologize to her for taking six months to get around to it!

( Be a man as Watson was.... )