The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
"Flanneled Fools ~ u
~ ~ and the Wicket. "

Worlds Work. for February contains the eompes,
poem, entitled The islanders" BY Rudyard Kpiine o.
which the following are said to be the interesting
And ye vauned your fahonless power and We Haunted
your iron pride
Ereye fawned the Younger Nations for the men whe
could shoot and ride n
Then returned your idols; then ye ccnteuted your
souls
With the fanueed fools at the wicket or the n,udded
OATS the goals.
Given TO strong delusion wholly believing lie
We saw that the land lay fenseless and let the months
Waiting some easy wonder; hoping some saving sign
ldie-openly idle-iu the lee of the forespeht Line.
ide-eNcept for your bosstng aud what is Boosting
worth
II grudse of service to the ordest life on EARTH
Ancient ehortess, ordered, cycle on cycle set
Life so long untroubled that We who inherit forget
1t was not made with the mountains il is not With
the deep.
Men, no, Gods, devised it Men, not Gods, must keep
Arid, aloof injurious, unthinkiug unthanking seit-
columns melt1
Win ye pray them preach them print them ballot
them back from your shorel
WIN your werkmen issue mandate to bid them strike
more?
VIII ye rise and dehrons your ruers because ye were
idle both,
Pride by humbed Incidence spurred by soth2j
No doubt but ye are the people who shall make you afraid
Also your gods doubt but gods shall aid
Idols OF greasy affairs built for the spirits ease
Proud little brazen Baas and talking fetshes
Totems Of aud party and wise woodpavement gods
/
under the rods
From the gusty dokerug eun-rou with viewless savoes
And the pitted hail OF bullets that tell not whence they
When ye ringed with iron, when ye seourged
with whips,
wheu the mes yet in your belly and the boast yet
! your lips
When ye go forth at morning and the moor behold you
broke
Ere We lie down even, your remnant under the yoke
The Islanders has not been well received IN England
In fact it's production looked upon oense the
island'sn o0ensc which Harper's Weekly aualyEes az
follows
make it and put il together from the quotations by
cable is that being himself colonial English he has pre-
sup1ed to ccusure the home English, 10 which they
feel to be wtng and haunting lie has called them island
which they and he has accused them Of preferriug
athletics and FIELD sports the martial exercises OF ehas-
ing armed Beers veld and kopes, with moments Of
uncertainty when the Beers appear bc chasing them
that have fawncd the younger nations fof
the that shoot and ride and has implied that they
have got Canada and Australia and New Zealand do their
work South Africa while they have killed cock pleas
ants their comfortable home and have played
the part fanneled fools at the wicket and muddcd oa
the goal instead Of coming down South Africa like
men, be captured and paroled by DE Wet Botha, His
remedy for their uuwohiness is (st reported by thu
eahe) the Of CONSUMPTION which prevails the
tnent when who fight and won't fight are mad,
TO fight But CONSUMPTION OF is alien 70 the genius
Of the Anglo Saxon and this is poin Of Mr., Kip
ngs pricky which pieces the British public
the quick and is strongly resented there position
10 pacy the fpiuos by draft OF American citizens wou,
be resented here The fact AngloSaNon both British
and American much prefer sick the dogs Of
hunting with them ourselves. When do go TO battle
like 20 volunteers, IN the persons Of Substitutes
but think the best way is for the hire peopi
to shoot and be shot at much day. When nc
longer do that the in South Africa and the Phppn
will become repugnant to the moral both coun
tries that we will have to give the Dutch and the Malay
their