The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-01

Icalled my men from my trenches, my quar-
res my wharves and my shears,
All had wrought abandoned to the faith OF
the faithless years
Only cut on the timber, only carved the
stone:
After me cometh Builder. Tell him, too
| have known!
/ Copyrighted, 1908, by Rudyard Kipling)
/ "The Dirge Of Dead Sisters is a stately
solemn tribute to the women who nursed
| the sick and dying in South Africa. Some
stanzas from the poem follow:
Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents
| in order e. .sas
volet peaks uplighted thru the crystal evening
And the clink of iron teacups and the piteous
noble laughter, - 80. ~. !.
And the faces of the Sisters with the dust upon
(Now and not hereafter, while the breath is in
| CUR nostrils .-' go =
Now and not hereafter ere the meaner years 20
I Let us now remember many honorable women
Such as babe us turn again when we were like
/ to die.) FL : .<. -.
(Till the pain was merciful and stunned us into
When each nerve cried out on God that made
| = the misused clay; ~ ~ 49, .-..
When the Body triumphed and the last poor .
| shame DEPARTED. % serE - 8. 49,.
These abode our agonies and wiped the sweat
away.) 49,.
Who recalls the noontide and the funerals thru
the market -
p
:. fiesO ..s -S.sN.- ~
And the footsore firing party, and the dust and
II stencil and staleness, ~
And the faces of the Sisters and the glory In
their eyes?
bold behind the battle, in the open camp all
, Copyrighted, 1903, by Rudyard Kipling)
7 ''The Dykes is one OF the strong poems
: of the collection, as the subjoined ex-
tracts show: :'s'.-~
: We have no heart for fishing, we have not hand
2 for the oar
All that our fathers taught us of old pleases us
T now no more;
All that our hearts bid us believe we doubt
| where we do not deny =
There Is proof in the bread we eat or rest
In the toll we ply.
2 Look you, our foreshore stretches for thru sea
!, gate, dyke and groin
Made land all, that our fathers made where the
fats and the fairway join.
Ihey forced the sea a sea league back. They
= died and their work stood fast.
We were born to peace in the lee of the dykes,
Il but the time of our peace is past.
Ninefold deep to the top of the dykes, the gal
| Looping breakers stride,
And their overcarried spray is a >sea-a sea
on the landward side.
. Coming, like stations they paw with their
hooves going they snatch with their teeth
. Till the bents and the furze and the sand ara
dragged out, and the oldtime wattIes be-
| r. meath! -.
I
apportion our shame N-1
These are the dykes our fathers left, but we
would not look to the same.
lime and again we warned of the dvkas
time and again delayed: = .. -
NOW, 1t may fail, have slain our sons an
| our forefathers have DESTROYED
| copyrighted, 1908 by Rudyard Kipling)-
4 The ,Englishman: chastened by the war
h is described in 1.-THE Return part Of
which follows: " -.
! Peace is declared an return : 81.
II 10 @Ackneystadt, but not the same;
Il Things ave ;transpired which made me Learn
\, Inc size and meanin' of the game
: d1d no more than others did
don know where the change began;
started as an average kid,
h finished as thinktn' man.
&c If England was what England seems.
An not the England of our Dreams
ar itut only putty, brass, an paint .,.
'OW quick we'd drop 'er! But she ANTI
- Before my gapin' mouth could speak
I'd card it in my comrades tone;
I saw it on my comrades cheek
" Before felt it flush my own.
An last it come to me-not pride
N Nor yet concet, but the 'ole
(If such term mny be appIied) 80 = -
e. The maxim of 8b1o6Int6' SOUL ..~tf SIT
II copyrighted, 1903, by Rudyard Kipiing.1 -
The married man is playfully described
BY in piece called The Married Man" A
sample stanza follows:
he The bachelor 'e fights for one,
AS joyful as can be,
gs But the married men don't call it fun,
Because e fights for three
IN For i'm and Ter and 1T
IAN two an makes three)
- e wants 10 finish is little bit
An e wants to go 'one to 'is tea!
Copyrighted, 1908, by Rudyard Kipling)
8: South Africa, idealized as wonderful
lis ~ woman, is the theme of one Of the mos
No interesting poems in the volume. The
following stanzas are quoted from tn,
-, poem: =. = D.
Lives woman wonderful,
Hlay the Lord amend her.)
Neither simple, Kind nor true,
-. But her Pagan beauty drew
Christian gentlemen few
= .,s Holly to attend her.
Christian gentlemen a few
1 From Berwick unto Dover,
. - For she South Africa,
r. And she South Africa.
',''- She South Africa.
Africa all over!
They esteemed her favor more
-. Than thrones foundation.
| From the glory of her face
b.. -" Babe farewell to breed and race
Yea. and made their burial place
Altar Of Nation!
- 5 Therefore, being bought by blood
-. And by blood restored
To the arms that nearly lost,
:; She, because of all she cost. --
Stands, very woman, most s'-->
" Perfect and adored! -
Copyrighted 1908 by Rudyard kiplins) :
Included in 1.-THE Five Nations al
twenty seven of Kipling's publishe
poems, including "The Recessional,' "Tf
White Mans Burden Our Lady OF tt
Shows "The Islanders "The Trace
the Bear" 1.-The Destroyers, Cruisers
-. 1.-The Wage Slaves 1.-The Bridge Guar
."o in the Karroo," ''Kitchener's School
nee and 1.-THE Lesson No..
fri - - =
NO NECESSITY
Booker T. Washington, in his arraigl
ment of those of whom he disapproves
so sincere and frank and earnest as to
sometimes, unconsciously amusing II
last time Mr.: Washington was in Ne
. York he met an old friend, a strong fe