Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay

Author:Rose Macaulay [Macaulay, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
Published: 2011-09-28T04:00:00+00:00

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Recessional

Triumphant patriotism is all very well. Proud imperialism is all very well. But these things should be carried with a swagger, like a panache, with a hint of the gay and the absurd, marching, as it were, to the wild, conceited noise of skirling pipes. People of all nations, but more particularly the English, are apt to forget this, and bear their patriotism heavily, unctuously, speak solemnly of the white man’s burden, and introduce religion into the gay and worldly affair.

Rudyard Kipling did this, on July 17th of Jubilee year, when he published in the Times, “Recessional,” beginning,—

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