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Rudyard Kipling
1865 - 1936
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A Pict Song
Rome never looks where she treads. / Always her heavy hooves fall / On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads;
A Pilgrim's Way
I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way / Or male and female devilkins to lead my feet astray. / If these are added I rejoice, if not, I shall not mind
A Preface
To all to whom this little book may come, / Health for yourselves and those you hold most dear! / Content abroad, and happiness at home,
A Recantation
What boots it on the Gods to call? / Since, answered or unheard, / We perish with the Gods and all
A Rector's Memory
The, Gods that are wiser than Learning / But kinder than Life have made sure / No mortal may boast in the morning
A Ripple Song
Once red ripple came to land / In the golden sunset burning, / Lapped against a maiden's hand,
A School Song
"Let us now praise famous men", / Men of little showing, / For their work continueth,
A Servant When He Reigneth
Three things make earth unquiet / And four she cannot brook / The godly Agur counted them
A Smuggler's Song
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, / Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. / Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
A Song At Cock-Crow
The first time that Peter denied his Lord / He shrank from the cudgel, the scourge and the cord, / But followed far off to see what they would do,
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