“Oh the road to Mandalay
Where the flyin'-fishes play
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer
China 'crost the Bay!”

—  Rudyard Kipling, book Barrack-Room Ballads

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

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