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Verses 1889-1896

by Rudyard Kipling
The Writings in Prose and Verse of

RUDYARD KIPLING
CONTENTS

Followed by first lines
BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

1889-1891
TO WOLCOTT BALESTIER

Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled --
BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

To T. A.
I have made for you a song,

DANNY DEEVER
"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.

TOMMY
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,

"FUZZY-WUZZY"
We've fought with many men acrost the seas,

SOLDIER, SOLDIER
"Soldier, soldier come from the wars,

SCREW-GUNS
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,

CELLS
I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button-stick:

GUNGA DIN
You may talk o' gin and beer

OONTS
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire?

LOOT
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back,

"SNARLEYOW"
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps,

THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor?

BELTS
There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,

THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East,

MANDALAY
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,

TROOPIN'
Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea,

THE WIDOW'S PARTY
"Where have you been this while away?"

FORD O' KABUL RIVER
Kabul town's by Kabul river,

GENTLEMEN-RANKERS
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,

ROUTE MARCHIN'
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,

SHILLIN' A DAY
My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly,

OTHER VERSES
THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
THE LAST SUTTEE

Udai Chand lay sick to death,
THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S MERCY

Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told,
THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S JEST

When spring-time flushes the desert grass,
WITH SCINDIA TO DELHI

The wreath of banquetovernight lay withered on the neck,
THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE

This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone,
THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER CATTLE THIEF

O woe is me for the merry life,
THE RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS

. . . At the close of a winter day,
THE BALLAD OF THE "CLAMPHERDOWN"

It was our war-ship ~Clampherdown~,
THE BALLAD OF THE "BOLIVAR"

Seven men from all the world back to Docks again,
THE SACRIFICE OF ER-HEB

Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai,
THE EXPLANATION

Love and Death once ceased their strife,
THE GIFT OF THE SEA

The dead child lay in the shroud,
EVARRA AND HIS GODS

Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man --,
THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS

When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
THE LEGEND OF EVIL

This is the sorrowful story,
THE ENGLISH FLAG

Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro,
"CLEARED"

Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt,
AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT

Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed,
TOMLINSON

Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square,
L'ENVOI TO "LIFE'S HANDICAP"

My new-cut ashlar takes the light,
L'ENVOI

There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,
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[In India, the swastika is an ancient symbol of good fortune.
Kipling frequently used the swastika in this context.]

THE SEVEN SEAS
1891-1896

DEDICATION
The Cities are full of pride,

THE SEVEN SEAS
A SONG OF THE ENGLISH

Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage!
The Coastwise Lights

Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees,
The Song of the Dead

Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges,
The Deep-Sea Cables

The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar --,
The Song of the Sons

One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door --,
The Song of the Cities

Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen,
England's Answer

Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban,
THE FIRST CHANTEY

Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her,
THE LAST CHANTEY

Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim,
THE MERCHANTMEN

King Solomon drew merchantmen,
M'ANDREW'S HYMN

Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
THE MIRACLES

I sent a message to my dear,
THE NATIVE-BORN

We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her!
THE KING

"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said,
THE RHYME OF THE THREE SEALERS

Away by the lands of the Japanee,
THE DERELICT

I was the staunchest of our fleet,
THE ANSWER

A Rose, in tatters, on the garden path,
THE SONG OF THE BANJO

You couldn't pack a Broadwood half a mile,
THE LINER SHE'S A LADY

The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds,
MULHOLLAND'S CONTRACT

The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,
ANCHOR SONG

Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah heave her short again!
FROM "MANY INVENTIONS".

THE LOST LEGION
There's a Legion that never was 'listed,

THE SEA-WIFE
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate,

HYMN BEFORE ACTION
The earth is full of anger,

TO THE TRUE ROMANCE
Thy face is far from this our war,

FROM "MANY INVENTIONS".
THE FLOWERS

Buy my English posies!
THE LAST RHYME OF TRUE THOMAS

The king has called for priest and cup,
IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE

In the Neolithic Age savagewarfare did I wage,
THE STORY OF UNG

Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago,
THE THREE-DECKER

Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail,
AN AMERICAN

If the Led Striker call it a strike,
THE "MARY GLOSTER"

I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim,
SESTINA OF THE TRAMP-ROYAL

Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all,
BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

"BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN"
I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,

"BIRDS OF PREY" MARCH
March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies,

"SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO"
As I was spitting into the Ditch aboard o' the ~Crocodile~,

SAPPERS
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,

THAT DAY
It got beyond all orders an' it got beyond all 'ope,

"THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN"
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time,

CHOLERA CAMP
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights,

THE LADIES
I've taken my fun where I've found it,

BILL 'AWKINS
"'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?"

THE MOTHER-LODGE
There was Rundle, Station Master,

"FOLLOW ME 'OME"
There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot,



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