“When you've shouted "Rule Brittania": when you've sung "God Save the Queen,"
When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth,
Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine
For a gentleman in khaki headed South?”

— Rudyard Kipling

The Absent-Minded Beggar (1899)

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

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