The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-26

Rudyard Kiplings latest poem, which
has attracted the attention OF the tWorid
because of its bitter indictment OF stay
at-home Englishmen, is here reprinted
from the London Times in full. II was
preceded by this Introduction:
early in January 2.Cco are 10
he enlisted and 1noolllZed Inc
men are to be sent to Aldershot IN
patches of $50 for. eight weeks tralllhs.
SO tho Cape Government asked
the Colonel to come home and secure SUIT
able men for his regiment
Any form of compulsory ser
vice being impossible among free peo-
pie
lips head of game falling TO
four guns. Thanks to careful and scien-
tific attention. the noors were
never in better condition. Daily Press.
rs Ny fifteen months out mere
have made me fairly keen on compulsory
service for all England. II IS Simply
awful that after two years you sefd US
out men who have to be taught 10 siloot
and ride. It's like expecting a poaru
school boy to play in a county eleven. =
Private Letter.
Fenced by your careful fathers, ringcd by
your leaden seas,
Long did We wake in quiet, and long lie
down at ease;
Till We said OF Strife: What IS 1t! ol
the Sword: 1T is far from our ken;
Til, We made a sport of your shrunken
hosts and a toy of your armed men
Ye stopped your ears TO the warnins-ye
would neither look nor heed,
Ye set your leisure before their toll, ana
your lusts above their need.
Because of your wtless learning and
your beasts Of warren and chase
Ye crudccd your sons for their service
and your fields for their camping
place.
We forced them CLEAN in the highways the
straw for the bricks they brought;
Ye forced them follow in byways the
craft that we never Taught.
We 11indered and hampered and crippled;
We thrust out of sight and away
Those that would serve YOU for honor and
those that served YOU for pay
Then were the Judgments loosened; then
was your sham revealed,
At the hands of a little people few but
apt in the field
Yet We were saved, by q remnant land your
lands long-suffcring starr.
When your strong men cheered IN their
millions WHO SOuI oIiiPiihSo 49,.
to the war.
Sons of the sheltered. clty-unmade, uil-
handled. unmeet-
We -tpIsheC them raw to the battle as We
oickcd them raw from the street
And what did We look they should COM
mass? War craft learned in breath:
Knowledge unto occasion at the first far
view of Death?
So! And yc train your horses ana inc
dogs We feed and prize. i
How are the beasts more worthy than
the souls YOU sacrifice?
R11t va said: ''Tlieir valor shall show
them but We said, 1.-THE end is
close
And We sent them comfits and pictures
to help them harry your foes.
And We vaunted your fatbomless power
and We Haunted your iron pride
Ere-vc fawiled on the Younger Nations
for the mon who could shoot and
ride.
Then we returned to your trlnl2ets; then
We contented your souls
With the fannelc6 fools at the wicket
or the muddied OATS at the goals.
Given to strong delusion, wholly believing
a lie.
Ye saw that the land lay fenceless and ye
let the months so by;
Waiting some easy wonder, hoping some
saving sign
Idle-openly idle-in the leo OF the fore
spent Line. ~
Idle-except for your Boosting, ana what
Is your Boosting worth
If We grudge a year5o service to the
Iordliest life on Earth?