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“It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world,
Which you can read and care for just so long,
But presently you feel that you will die
Unless you get the page you're readin' done,
An' turn another—likely not so good;
But what you're after is to turn 'em all.”

Rudyard Kipling

Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, Stanza 6.
The Seven Seas (1896)

““Stand up, stand up now, Tomlinson, and answer loud and high
“The good that ye did for the sake of men or ever ye came to die—
“The good that ye did for the sake of men in little earth so lone!”
And the naked soul of Tomlinson grew white as a rain-washed bone.”

Rudyard Kipling

Tomlinson, l. 7-10 (1891).
Other works

“An' I learned about women from 'er.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

The Ladies, ending line to Stanzas III, IV, and V.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

The Ladies, Stanza I.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, and the Church of England Providence only exercising an occasional and modified supervision in the case of Englishmen.”

Rudyard Kipling Life's Handicap

The Mark of the Beast.
Life's Handicap (1891)

“It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.”

Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills

Lispeth.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“Two things greater than all things are,
The first is Love, and the second War.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Ballad of the King's Jest, Stanza 9
Other works

“They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,
An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Danny Deever, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

““What are the bugles blowin' for?” said Files-on-Parade.
“To turn you out, to turn you out”, the Colour-Sergeant said.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Danny Deever, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!”

Rudyard Kipling

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?””

Rudyard Kipling

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!”

Rudyard Kipling book 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."”

Rudyard Kipling book 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.”

Rudyard Kipling

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.”

Rudyard Kipling

Harp Song of the Dane Women http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_harp.htm, Stanza 3 (1906). <br class="br">Puck of Pook&#x27;s Hill 1906

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

Rudyard Kipling

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.”

Rudyard Kipling

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!”

Rudyard Kipling book 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.”

Rudyard Kipling book 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.”

Rudyard Kipling

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)