“We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low.
Will you never let us go?”

— Rudyard Kipling

Song of the Galley-Slaves http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p4/galleyslaves.html, l. 1-2 (1893). <br class="br">Other works

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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