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Verses 1889-1896
by Rudyard Kipling [Anglo-Indian writer and poet,
1865-1936]
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RUDYARD KIPLING
VOLUME XI
VERSES 1889-1896
The Writings in Prose and Verse of
RUDYARD KIPLING
VERSES
1889-1896
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 banquet overnight 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,