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Adam-zad African kopje battle be'ind blood bloomin Boojer Boots-boots-boots-boots breed camp COLUMNS crown dark dead Diego Valdez Dives draw the wage dust eard Earth England fight files firin Five Nations flank foes Foul weather go-go gold Good-bye guard guns hand hate hath hear heart Ikonas Kamakura King knew known a lot land learned at Waterval Lest we forget-lest Lichtenberg look Lord luck Mede movin murrain neath never night Number o'er Old Queen once Orse otherwise hillmen desire peace Pharaoh plain pompom pride Queen Red Gods call Rimmon RUDYARD KIPLING Sergeant Whatsis sight worse six undred smoke Snows soul South Africa STALKY & CO sword TAUCHNITZ thee There's no discharge things trekkin Trumpets Twixt Ubique means unto wait Ware shoal watch Waterval The meanin Wherefore Whisper White Man's burden word worse than Piet
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Page 245 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart; Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us vet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Page 246 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget ! For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard, All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding, calls not Thee to guard, For frantic boast and foolish word Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord ! Kipling • 397 DANNY DEEVER 'WHAT are the bugles blowin
Page 72 - Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so: Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges — ' Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
Page 62 - Send the road is clear before you when the old Spring-fret comes o'er you And the Red Gods call for you...
Page 162 - And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted your iron pride, Ere — ye fawned on the Younger Nations for the men who could shoot and ride! Then ye returned to your trinkets ; then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.
Page 102 - Take up the White Man's burden — And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard — The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:'Why brought ye us from bondage, 'Our loved Egyptian night?
Page 90 - God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall prove Beloved over all. Each to his choice, and I rejoice The lot has fallen to me In a fair ground — in a fair ground — Yea, Sussex by the sea!
Page 133 - All we have of freedom, all we use or know — This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. Ancient Right unnoticed as the breath we draw — Leave to live by no man's leave, underneath the Law.
Page 101 - Take up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild — Your new caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.
Page 88 - Swift to my use in my trenches, where my well-planned groundworks grew, I tumbled his quoins and his ashlars, and cut and reset them anew. Lime I milled of the marbles: burned it, slacked it and spread; Taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble dead. Yet I despised not nor gloried; yet as we wrenched them apart, I read in the razed foundations the heart of that builder's heart. As he had risen and pleaded, so did I understand, The form of the dream he had followed in the face of the...