Month: March 2022
Values in Life, Rudyard Kipling
“According to the ancient and laudable custom of the schools, I, as one of your wandering scholars returned, have been instructed to speak to you. The only penalty youth must pay for its enviabl...
Chapter of Proverbs, Rudyard Kipling
1. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and after the same manner in every country. Be not puffed up with a breath (of it) 2. Of a portion set aside a portion or ever the days come when thou shalt see t...
Why do they prate of the blessings of peace? Lord Tennyson
Why do they prate of the blessings of peace? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than ...
A Song of England, Rudyard Kipling
Song of the Sons “One from the ends of the earth—gifts at an open door— Treason has much, but we, Mother, thy sons have more! From the whine of a dying man, from the snarl of a wolf-pack freed, Turn, ...
The Secret People, G.K. Chesterton
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget;For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.There is many a fat farmer that drinks less cheerfully,There is many a free French pe...
Drake’s Drum, Henry Newbolt
Drake he’s in his hammock an’ a thousand miles away,(Capten, art tha sleepin’ there below?)Slung atween the round shot in Nombre Dios Bay,An’ dreamin’ arl the time O̵...
Character of a Happy Warrior, William Wordsworth
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? —It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased ...
Kipling’s The Recessional
God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle line, Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Th...
Kipling’s The Heritage
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