 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...my favorite : — ' I have eaten yonr bread and salt, I have drunk yonr water and wine, The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine.' She desired me to write it down for her. The next time I called, she requested me somewhat mysteriously... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English Poetry - 1890 - 294 pages
...EXPLANATION 259 THE GIFT OF THE SEA 261 EVARRA AND HlS GODS . . . . 266 DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. 7" HA VE eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1893 - 540 pages
...There is a verse of his scrawled in charcoal over the prill in the Degchi Club which tells it all : "I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside. And the lives that ye led were mine." Why, would you believe it, there... | |
 | American literature - 1894 - 810 pages
...us when he says: " I have eaten your bread and salt, I llave drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. 11 Was there aught that I did not share. In vigil or toil or ease. One joy or woe that I did not know,... | |
 | American literature - 1895 - 910 pages
...Kipling's books. The secret of this knowledge is not far to seek. He gives it to us when he says: " I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. " Was there aught that I did not... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1900 - 334 pages
...art free, Armed, at my hands, with all the darts that kill. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES 1886-89 PRELUDE / have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine ; The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - Authors, American - 1898 - 398 pages
...apologize lightly, smile, and be forgiven. In after years he addressed his Indian friends thus : — " I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine. "Was there aught I did not share In... | |
 | G. F. Monkshood - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 282 pages
...It is dedicated to the " dear hearts across the seas " in a few simple sincere verses, beginning : " I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine." In the opening "General Summary,"... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1899 - 412 pages
...Kabul River . . . . 200 Gentlemen-Rankers 203 Route-Marchin' 206 Shillin' a Day 210 L'envoi a1a PRELUDE I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine; The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Authors, English - 1899 - 328 pages
...chain, art free, Armed, at my hands, with all the darts that kill. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES 1886-89 PRELUDE I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine ; The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share... | |
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I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine; The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share In vigil or toil or ease,— One joy or woe that I did not know, Dear... 
