Kipling by Rudyard Kipling

Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-80445-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

You forget our mirth and talk at the tables,

The kine in the shed and the horse in the stables –

To pitch her sides and go over her cables.

Then you drive out where the storm-clouds swallow,

And the sound of your oar-blades falling hollow

Is all we have left through the months to follow.

Ah, what is Woman that you forsake her,

And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,

To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

‘RIMINI’

Marching Song of a Roman Legion of the Later Empire

When I left Rome for Lalage’s sake,

By the Legions’ Road to Rimini,

She vowed her heart was mine to take

With me and my shield to Rimini –

(Till the Eagles flew from Rimini –)

And I’ve tramped Britain, and I’ve tramped Gaul,

And the Pontic shore where the snow-flakes fall

As white as the neck of Lalage –

(As cold as the heart of Lalage!)

And I’ve lost Britain and I’ve lost Gaul,

And I’ve lost Rome and, worst of all,

I’ve lost Lalage!

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