Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (Classic Reprint)

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781331163589

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Excerpt from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling Men make them fires on the hearth Each under his roof-tree, And the Four Winds that rule the earth They blow the smokes to me. Across the high hills and the sea And all the changeful skies, The Four Winds blow the smoke to me Till the tears are in my eyes. Until the tears are in my eyes And my heart is wellnigh broke; For thinking on old memories That gather in the smoke. With every shift of every wind The homesick memories come, From every quarter of mankind Where I have made me a home. Four times a fire against the cold And a roof against the rain - Sorrow fourfold and joy fourfold The Four Winds bring again! How can I answer which is best Of all the fires that burn? I have been too often host or guest At every fire in turn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling PDF

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781230199580

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... His will can loose ten thousand To seek their loves again--But not Diego Valdez, High Admiral of Spain. There walks no wind 'neath Heaven Nor wave that shall restore The old careening riot And the clamorous, crowded shore--The fountain in the desert, The cistern in the waste, The bread we ate in secret, The cup we spilled in haste. Now call I to my Captains--For council fly the sign, Now leap their zealous galleys, Twelve-oared, across the brine. To me the straiter prison, To me the heavier chain--To me Diego Valdez, High Admiral of Spain! the second voyage 1903 We te sent our little Cupids all ashore--They were frightened, they were tired, they were cold; Our sails of silk and purple go to store, And we've cut away our mast of beaten gold (Foul weather!) Oh't is hemp and singing pine for to stand against the brine, But Love he is our master as of old! The sea has shorn our galleries away, The salt has soiled our gilding past remede; Our paint is flaked and blistered by the spray, Our sides are half a fathom furred in weed (Foul weather!) And the doves of Venus fled and the petrels came instead, But Love he was our master at our need! 'Was Youth would keep no vigil at the bow, 'Was Pleasure at the helm too drunk to steer--We've shipped three able quartermasters now, Men call them Custom, Reverence, and Fear (Foul weather!) They are old and scarred and plain, but we 'll run no risk again From any Port o' Paphos mutineer! We seek no more the tempest for delight, We skirt no more the indraught and the shoal--We ask no more of any day or night Than to come with least adventure to our goal (Foul weather!) What we find we needs must brook, but we do not go to look, Nor tempt the Lord our God that saved us whole! Yet, caring so, not overmuch we...

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling - Scholar's Choice Edition

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling - Scholar's Choice Edition PDF

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781298344182

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