With Scindia to Delphi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile ...
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Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
For the sake of him who showed One wise Frog the Jungle-Road, Keep the Law the Man-Pack make For thy ...
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One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
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Twelve hundred million men are spread About this Earth, and I and You Wonder, when You and I are dead, ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
The dead child lay in the shroud, And the widow watched beside; And her mother slept, and the Channel swept ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Until thy feet have trod the Road Advise not wayside folk, Nor till thy back has borne the Load Break ...
Our Lord Who did the Ox command To kneel to Judah's King, He binds His frost upon the land To ...
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1903 Before a midnight breaks in storm, Or herded sea in wrath, Ye know what wavering gusts inform The greater ...
1896 They christened my brother of old-- And a saintly name he bears-- They gave him his place to hold ...
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path, Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath, Because a sudden ...
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