# Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads

* Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Bar- rack Room Ballads
* By Rudyard Kipling
* Garden City  New York
* DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
* 1919
Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads
Copyright, 1892,
By MACMILLAN AND CO.
New Edition, with Additional Poems
Copyright, 1893,
By MACMILLAN AND CO.
Copyright, 1899,
By RUDYARD KIPLING
Departmental Ditties and Other Poems,
Revised, April, 1899.
Copyright, 1899,
By RUDYARD KIPLING
CONTENTS
| DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES | |
| | PAGE |
| General Summary | 3 |
| Army Headquarters | 5 |
| Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink | 8 |
| Delilah | 10 |
| A Legend of the Foreign Office | 14 |
| The Story of Uriah | 17 |
| The Post that Fitted | 19 |
| A Code of Morals | 22 |
| Public Waste | 26 |
| What Happened | 29 |
| The Man Who Could Write | 32 |
| Pink Dominoes | 35 |
| Municipal | 38 |
| The Last Department | 41 |
| OTHER VERSES | |
| My Rival | 45 |
| To the Unknown Goddess | 48 |
| The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin | 50 |
| Pagett, M. P. | 53 |
| La Nuit Blanche | 56 |
| The Lovers' Litany | 61 |
| A Ballad of Burial | 63 ​ |
| The Overland Mail | 66 |
| Divided Destinies | 68 |
| The Masque of Plenty | 71 |
| The Mare's Nest | 78 |
| The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-house | 81 |
| Possibilities | 86 |
| Arithmetic on the Frontier | 89 |
| The Song of the Women | 91 |
| The Betrothed | 94 |
| A Ballade of Jakko Hill | 99 |
| The Plea of the Simla Dancers | 101 |
| "As the Bell Clinks" | 104 |
| Christmas in India | 108 |
| The Grave of the Hundred Head | 111 |
| An Old Song | 116 |
| Certain Maxims of Hafiz | 120 |
| The Moon of Other Days | 126 |
| The Fall of Jock Gillespie | 128 |
| What the People Said | 131 |
| The Undertaker's Horse | 134 |
| One Viceroy Resigns | 137 |
| The Galley-slave | 146 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | 151 |
| In Springtime | 155 |
| Giffen's Debt | 157 |
| Two Months. In June | 160 |
| Two Months. In September | 161 |
| L'envoi | 162 |
| BALLADS | |
| The Ballad of East and West | 3 |
| The Last Suttee | 12 ​ |
| The Ballad of the King's Mercy | 18 |
| The Ballad of the King's Jest | 25 |
| With Scindia to Delhi | 31 |
| The Ballad of Boh Da Thone | 40 |
| The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief | 53 |
| The Rhyme of the Three Captains | 56 |
| The Ballad of the "Clampherdown" | 64 |
| The Ballad of the "Bolivar" | 69 |
| The Lost Legion | 74 |
| The Sacrifice of Er-Heb | 77 |
| The Dove of Dacca | 88 |
| The Explanation | 90 |
| An Answer | 91 |
| The Gift of the Sea | 92 |
| Evarra and His Gods | 96 |
| The Conundrum of the Workshops | 100 |
| In the Neolithic Age | 104 |
| The Legend of Evil | 107 |
| The English Flag | 111 |
| "Cleared" | 117 |
| An Imperial Rescript | 125 |
| Tomlinson | 129 |
| BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS | |
| Danny Deever | 143 |
| Tommy | 146 |
| "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" | 150 |
| Soldier, Soldier | 153 |
| Screw-Guns | 156 |
| Cells | 160 |
| Gunga Din | 163 |
| Oonts! | 167 ​ |
| Loot | 171 |
| "Snarleyow" | 175 |
| The Widow at Windsor | 179 |
| Belts | 182 |
| The Young British Soldier | 186 |
| Mandalay | 190 |
| Troopin' | 194 |
| The Widow's Party | 197 |
| Ford o' Kabul River | 200 |
| Gentlemen-Rankers | 203 |
| Route Marchin' | 206 |
| Shillin' a Day | 210 |
| L'envoi | 212 |
PRELUDE
BALLADS
AND
BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS
To
WOLCOTT BALESTIER
PREFACE
The greater part of the "Barrack-Room Ballads," as well as "Cleared," "Tomlinson," and "The English Flag," have appeared in the "National Observer." Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have kindly given me permission to reproduce four ballads contributed to their Magazine, and I am indebted to the "St. James Gazette" for a like courtesy in regard to the ballads of the "Clampherdown" and "Bolivar," and the "Imperial Rescript." "The Rhyme of the Three Captains" was printed first in the "Athenæum." I fancy that most of the other verses are new.
RUDYARD KIPLING.
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