New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-01

And ng ,6e faces Of the Sisters with the dust upon
any their cir hair7
CSow. and not hereafter. while the breath IS in our
Now and not hereafter ere the meaner years
Let rs now remember many honournble women.
such as babe Us turn again when we were like
TO de-)
CTfn the pain was nercitul and stunned into
when each nerve cried out on God that made tn.
when the Body triumphed. ana the last poor shame
These abode our agonies and wiped the sweat
away9
Who recalls the noontide and the funerals through
Blanket hidden bodies. aagless. followed by the
AID the footsore firing party. and the dust and
stencil and staleness,
And the faces OF the Sisters and the glory in
CBola Behind the battle in the open camp all
Copyright, 1893 By Rudyard Kipling.
stIn smother poem in which note OF sol
ernnity is struck is the one called The Dykes"
the quality OF which IS shown in these ex-
tracts:
We have no heart for the fishing, We have hand
All that our fathers taught Us of old pleases US
All that our hearts bid US believe we doubt where
There IS no proof IN the bread we eat or rest in
the toll We ply
Look you our f0Eeshore stretches far through sea-
Made land al, that our fathers made where the
fats and the talrway Join.
and their work stood fast
We we're born to peace In the lee Of the dykes but
the time OF our peace is past.
Nin , deep to the top of the dykes. the gal
And their overcarried spray is sea-a sea on the
Coming, like stations they paw with their hooves,
gong they snatch with their teeth,
az he ffrZn nd
dragged out and the oldtinae rattles beneath
Now we can only wait till the day. wait and ap-
- poruon our shame
These are the dykes fathers left but We would
not look 10 the same.
Time and again were we warned OF the dykes. time
Now It may fan We have slain our
fathers we have destroyed
Copyright, 1903 by Rudyard E1pling.
We know how Mr. Kipling has vreaked him
self on the need among the British fer some sort
Of realization Of what the conflict in South
Africa should mean to an intelligent people in
the way Of instruction. In stories and in verses
he has been necessarily pointing the moral Of
the whole episode In THE Return" part Of
which we quote the supposititious speaker is an
Englishman whose feelings have been consid-
erably chastened by his experience on the
veldt:
Peace IS declared, an 7 return
TO 'Ackneystsdt, but not the same;
The size and meanin' Of the game.
did no more than others did,
/ don't know where the change began:
started as a average KID,
I finished thinkin' man.
# ENGLAND was what England seems
An not the England Of our dreams.
'ow quick we'd drop err ,, But she ain't
1 card II in my comrades tone;
saw II on my neighbor's cheek
Before felt il flush my own.
An last It come to me-not pride.
Nor yet conceit, but on the ole
Of such term may be applied
Copyright 1903 by Rudyard Iipling
The emotions OF the man in the ranks a
matter OF peculiar interest to Mr.. Kipling.
What he thinks Of the significance in the war
Of the British husband and father is well Illus
trated by this stanza from THE Married Mans
The bachelor e fights for one,
But the married man don't cali It fun,
Because e fights for three
An Two an One makes Three.
Z wants TO finish is little bit
Copyright 1903 by Rudyard KipDng.
One Of the most interesting poems in the vol
ume Is dedicated TO South Africa kind Of
personality. She is. in fact, ideaiized as a
woman. In this wise. through part OF the
poem. MT. Klpling discourses Of the land which
has so powerfully appealed to his imagination;
Lived g woman wonderful
{8Izy the Lord amend herd
Neither simple. kind true,
But her Pagan beauty drew
Christian gentlemen a few
Eotly attend her.
Christian gentlemen a few.
From Berwick unto Dover
Tor she South Africa,
And she WIS South Africa,
She was our South Africa,
Africa all overt
They esteemed her favour more
Than a Thrones foundation.
For the glory Of her face
Babe farewell to breed and race
Yea. and made their burial place
Altar Of q NatiOnl
Wherefore. being bought by blood
AND by blood restored
To the that nearly lost.
She. because OF ell she cost.
Stands. very woman. most
Perfect and adoreoi
-(Copyright 1903 by Rudyard KiplinE. |