For All We Have and Are http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/forall.html, Stanza 1 (1914). <br class="br">Other works

“We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It's clever, but is it Art?””

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The Conundrum of the Workshops, Stanza 6.
Other works

“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!”

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Rudyard Kipling libro Barrack-Room Ballads

Young British Soldier, Stanza 13.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“She read a little of it. I give her review verbatim: "Oh, your book? It's all about those how-wid Wajahs. I didn't understand it."”

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Rudyard Kipling libro Plain Tales from the Hills

Wressley of the Foreign Office.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“For ‘im that doth not work must surely die;
But that's no reason man should labour all
‘Is life on one same shift—life's none so long.”

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Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, Stanza 4 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“She has no strong white arms to fold you,
But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you—
Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you.”

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Harp Song of the Dane Women http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_harp.htm, Stanza 3 (1906). <br class="br">Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

“If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.”

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Common Form
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)

“There's a Legion that never was 'listed,
That carries no colours or crest,
But, split in a thousand detachments,
Is breaking the road for the rest.”

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The Lost Legion, Stanza 1 (1895).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“When the cabin port-holes are dark and green
Because of the seas outside;
When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between)
And the steward falls into the soup-tureen,
And the trunks begin to slide;
When Nursey lies on the floor in a heap,
And Mummy tells you to let her sleep,
And you aren't waked or washed or dressed,
Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed)
You're ‘Fifty North and Forty West!”

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Rudyard Kipling libro Just So Stories

How the Whale Got His Throat.
Just So Stories (1902)

“And oft-times cometh our wise Lord God, master of every trade,
And tells them tales of His daily toil, of Edens newly made;
And they rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid.”

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Rudyard Kipling libro Barrack-Room Ballads

Dedication, Stanza 5.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“Take of English earth as much
As either hand may rightly clutch.
In the taking of it breathe
Prayer for all who lie beneath.”

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Epitaphs of the War, Stanza 1. <br class="br"> Rewards and Fairies http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/RewardsFaries/index.html (1910)