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Contradictions by Rudyard Kipling
'Birds of Prey' March by Rudyard Kipling
A Ballad of Burial by Rudyard Kipling
A Ballad of Jakko Hill by Rudyard Kipling
A Boy Scouts'Patrol Song by Rudyard Kipling
A British-Roman Song by Rudyard Kipling
A Carol by Rudyard Kipling
A Charm by Rudyard Kipling
A Child's Garden by Rudyard Kipling
A Code of Morals by Rudyard Kipling
A Counting-Out Song by Rudyard Kipling
A Death-Bed by Rudyard Kipling
A Dedication by Rudyard Kipling
A DePart ure by Rudyard Kipling
A GENERAL SUMMARY by Rudyard Kipling
A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
A Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling
A Pilgrim'S Way by Rudyard Kipling
A Recantation by Rudyard Kipling
A Ripple Song by Rudyard Kipling
A School Song by Rudyard Kipling
A Smuggler's Song by Rudyard Kipling
A Song at Cock-Crow by Rudyard Kipling
A Song In Storm by Rudyard Kipling
A Song of Kabir by Rudyard Kipling
A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling
A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling
A Song of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
A St. Helena Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
A Tale of Two Cities by Rudyard Kipling
A Three-Part Song by Rudyard Kipling
A Translation by Rudyard Kipling
A Tree Song by Rudyard Kipling
A Truthful Song by Rudyard Kipling
An American by Rudyard Kipling
An Astrologer's Song by Rudyard Kipling
An Astrologers Song by Rudyard Kipling
An Imperial Rescript by Rudyard Kipling
An Old Song by Rudyard Kipling
Anchor Song by Rudyard Kipling
Anchor Song Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling
Anchor Song Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling
Angutivaun Taina by Rudyard Kipling
Arithmetic on the Frontier by Rudyard Kipling
Army Headquarters by Rudyard Kipling
Arterial by Rudyard Kipling
As the Bell Clinks by Rudyard Kipling
At His Execution by Rudyard Kipling
Azraels Count by Rudyard Kipling
Azrael's Count by Rudyard Kipling
Back To The Army Again by Rudyard Kipling
Banquet Night by Rudyard Kipling
Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling
Beast and Man in India by Rudyard Kipling
Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm by Rudyard Kipling
Belts by Rudyard Kipling
Big Steamers by Rudyard Kipling
Bill 'Awkins by Rudyard Kipling
Birds Of Prey March by Rudyard Kipling
Blue Roses by Rudyard Kipling
Bobs by Rudyard Kipling
Boots by Rudyard Kipling
Bridge-Guard in the Karroo by Rudyard Kipling
Brookland Road by Rudyard Kipling
Brown Bess by Rudyard Kipling
Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling
Butterflies by Rudyard Kipling
By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
Cain and Abel by Rudyard Kipling
Carmen Circulare by Rudyard Kipling
Cells by Rudyard Kipling
Certain Maxims Of Hafiz by Rudyard Kipling
Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
Chapter Headings by Rudyard Kipling
Cholera Camp by Rudyard Kipling
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling
Cities and Thrones and Powers by Rudyard Kipling
Cleared by Rudyard Kipling
Cold Iron by Rudyard Kipling
Columns by Rudyard Kipling
Covenant by Rudyard Kipling
Covenent by Rudyard Kipling
Cruisers by Rudyard Kipling
Cuckoo Song by Rudyard Kipling
Dane-Geld by Rudyard Kipling
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
Darzee's Chount by Rudyard Kipling
Dedication by Rudyard Kipling
Delilah by Rudyard Kipling
Dinah in Heaven by Rudyard Kipling
Divided Destinies by Rudyard Kipling
Doctors by Rudyard Kipling
Eddi's Service by Rudyard Kipling
Edgehill Fight by Rudyard Kipling
En-Dor by Rudyard Kipling
England's Answer by Rudyard Kipling
Englands Answer by Rudyard Kipling
Evarra And His Gods by Rudyard Kipling
Farewell and adieu' by Rudyard Kipling
Farewell and adieu... by Rudyard Kipling
Fastness by Rudyard Kipling
Follow Me 'ome by Rudyard Kipling
Follow Me Ome by Rudyard Kipling
For All We Have And Are by Rudyard Kipling
For To Admire by Rudyard Kipling
Ford o' Kabul River by Rudyard Kipling
Four-Feet by Rudyard Kipling
Fuzzy-Wuzzy by Rudyard Kipling
Gallio's Song by Rudyard Kipling
Gehazi by Rudyard Kipling
Gentlemen-Rankers by Rudyard Kipling
Gentlmen-Rankers by Rudyard Kipling
Gethsemane by Rudyard Kipling
Giffen's Debt by Rudyard Kipling
Great-Heart by Rudyard Kipling
Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
Half-Ballad of Waterval by Rudyard Kipling
Harp Song of the Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
Helen all Alone by Rudyard Kipling
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack by Rudyard Kipling
Hymn Before Action by Rudyard Kipling
I Keep Six Honest... by Rudyard Kipling
If by Rudyard Kipling
In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling
In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
In the Neolithic Age by Rudyard Kipling
Jubal and Tubal Cain by Rudyard Kipling
Justice by Rudyard Kipling
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Kitchener's School by Rudyard Kipling
La Nuit Blanche by Rudyard Kipling
L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling
Lenvoi by Rudyard Kipling
Lichtenberg by Rudyard Kipling
Loot by Rudyard Kipling
Lord Roberts by Rudyard Kipling
Lukannon by Rudyard Kipling
Macdonough's Song by Rudyard Kipling
Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
Many Inventions by Rudyard Kipling
Mary, Pity Women! by Rudyard Kipling
Mary's Son by Rudyard Kipling
McAndrews Hymn by Rudyard Kipling
McAndrew's Hymn by Rudyard Kipling
Merrow Down by Rudyard Kipling
Mesopotamia by Rudyard Kipling
Mine Sweepers by Rudyard Kipling
Morning Song in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
Mother o' Mine by Rudyard Kipling
Mowgli's Song by Rudyard Kipling
Mowgli's Song Against People by Rudyard Kipling
Mulholland's Contract by Rudyard Kipling
My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling
My Lady's Law by Rudyard Kipling
My New-Cut Ashler by Rudyard Kipling
My Rival by Rudyard Kipling
Natural Theology by Rudyard Kipling
One Viceroy Resigns by Rudyard Kipling
Oonts by Rudyard Kipling
Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling
Outsong in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
Pagett, M.P. by Rudyard Kipling
Philadelphia by Rudyard Kipling
Poor Honest Men by Rudyard Kipling
Possibilities by Rudyard Kipling
Prelude by Rudyard Kipling
Prophets at Home by Rudyard Kipling
Public Waste by Rudyard Kipling
Puck's Song by Rudyard Kipling
Rebirth by Rudyard Kipling
Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
Rimini by Rudyard Kipling
Rimmon by Rudyard Kipling
Road-Song of the Bandar-Log by Rudyard Kipling
Romulus and Remus by Rudyard Kipling
Route Marchin' by Rudyard Kipling
Route Marchin by Rudyard Kipling
Russia To The Pacifists by Rudyard Kipling
Sappers by Rudyard Kipling
Screw-Guns by Rudyard Kipling
Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
Sestina Of The Tramp a Royal by Rudyard Kipling
Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal by Rudyard Kipling
Seven Watchmen by Rudyard Kipling
Shillin' a Day by Rudyard Kipling
Sir Richard's Song by Rudyard Kipling
Snarleyow by Rudyard Kipling
Soldier an' Sailor Too by Rudyard Kipling
Soldier, Soldier by Rudyard Kipling
Song of Diego Valdez by Rudyard Kipling
Song of the Fifth River by Rudyard Kipling
Song of the Red War-Boat by Rudyard Kipling
Song of the Wise Children by Rudyard Kipling
South Africa by Rudyard Kipling
Study of an Elevation, In Indian Ink by Rudyard Kipling
Sussex by Rudyard Kipling
Tarrant Moss by Rudyard Kipling
The Advertisement by Rudyard Kipling
The American Rebellion by Rudyard Kipling
The Answer by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of Boh Da Thone Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of Boh Da Thone Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of Minepit Shaw by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of the 'Bolivar' by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of the 'Bolivar' by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of the Cars by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of the 'Clampherdown' by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of the King's Jest by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of the Kings Jest by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of the King's Mercy by Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of the Red Earl by Rudyard Kipling
The Bees and the Flies by Rudyard Kipling
The Beginner by Rudyard Kipling
The Beginnings by Rudyard Kipling
The Bell Buoy by Rudyard Kipling
The Benefactors by Rudyard Kipling
The Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling
The Birthright by Rudyard Kipling
The Braggart by Rudyard Kipling
The Broken Men by Rudyard Kipling
The Burial by Rudyard Kipling
The Captive by Rudyard Kipling
The Centaurs by Rudyard Kipling
The Changelings by Rudyard Kipling
The Children's Song by Rudyard Kipling
The Childrens Song by Rudyard Kipling
The City of Sleep by Rudyard Kipling
The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
The Coiner by Rudyard Kipling
The Comforters by Rudyard Kipling
The Consolations of Memory by Rudyard Kipling
The Conundrum of the Workshops by Rudyard Kipling
The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling
The Cure by Rudyard Kipling
The Dawn Wind by Rudyard Kipling
The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling
The Dead King by Rudyard Kipling
The Declaration of London by Rudyard Kipling
The Deep-Sea Cables by Rudyard Kipling
The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling
The Destroyers by Rudyard Kipling
The Disciple by Rudyard Kipling
The Dove of Dacca by Rudyard Kipling
The Dutch in the Medway by Rudyard Kipling
The Dying Chauffeur by Rudyard Kipling
The 'eathen by Rudyard Kipling
The Egg-Shell by Rudyard Kipling
The English Flag by Rudyard Kipling
The Expert by Rudyard Kipling
The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling
The Explorer by Rudyard Kipling
The Fabulists by Rudyard Kipling
The Fairies' Siege by Rudyard Kipling
The Fall of Jock Gillespie by Rudyard Kipling
The Feet Of the Young Men by Rudyard Kipling
The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling
The Fires by Rudyard Kipling
The First Chantey by Rudyard Kipling
The Flight by Rudyard Kipling
The Floods by Rudyard Kipling
The Flowers by Rudyard Kipling
The Galley-Slave by Rudyard Kipling
The Gift of the Sea by Rudyard Kipling
The Gipsy Trail by Rudyard Kipling
The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling
The Grave of the Hundered Head by Rudyard Kipling
The Greek National Anthem by Rudyard Kipling
The Heritage by Rudyard Kipling
The Holy War by Rudyard Kipling
The Houses by Rudyard Kipling
The Hyaenas by Rudyard Kipling
The Instructor by Rudyard Kipling
THE IRISH GUARDS by Rudyard Kipling
The Jacket by Rudyard Kipling
The Jester by Rudyard Kipling
The King by Rudyard Kipling
The Kingdom by Rudyard Kipling
The Ladies by Rudyard Kipling
The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief by Rudyard Kipling
The Land by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Chantey by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Department by Rudyard Kipling
The Last of the Light Brigade by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Rhyme of True Thomas by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Suttee by Rudyard Kipling
The Law of the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
The Legend of Evil by Rudyard Kipling
The Legend of Mirth by Rudyard Kipling
The Lesson by Rudyard Kipling
The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
The Liner She's a Lady by Rudyard Kipling
The Long Trail by Rudyard Kipling
The Lost Legion by Rudyard Kipling
The Lovers' Litany by Rudyard Kipling
The Lowestoft Boat by Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Could Write by Rudyard Kipling
The Mare's Nest by Rudyard Kipling
The Married Man by Rudyard Kipling
The Mary Gloster by Rudyard Kipling
The 'Mary Gloster' by Rudyard Kipling
The Men That Fought at Minden by Rudyard Kipling
The Merchantmen by Rudyard Kipling
The Miracles by Rudyard Kipling
The Moon of Other Days by Rudyard Kipling
The Mother-Lodge by Rudyard Kipling
The Native-Born by Rudyard Kipling
The Naulahka by Rudyard Kipling
The Necessitarian by Rudyard Kipling
The New Knighthood by Rudyard Kipling
The Old Issue by Rudyard Kipling
The Oldest Song by Rudyard Kipling
The Only Son by Rudyard Kipling
The Outlaws by Rudyard Kipling
The Overland Mail by Rudyard Kipling
The Palace by Rudyard Kipling
The Peace Of Dives by Rudyard Kipling
The Plea of the Simla Dancers by Rudyard Kipling
The Post That Fitted by Rudyard Kipling
The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kipling
The Power of the Dog' by Rudyard Kipling
The Prairie by Rudyard Kipling
The Prayer of Miriam Cohen by Rudyard Kipling
The Press by Rudyard Kipling
The Pro-Consuls by Rudyard Kipling
The Prodigal Son by Rudyard Kipling
The Puzzler by Rudyard Kipling
The Queen's Men by Rudyard Kipling
The Quesion by Rudyard Kipling
The Rabbi's Song by Rudyard Kipling
The Recall by Rudyard Kipling
The Reformers by Rudyard Kipling
The Return by Rudyard Kipling
The Return of the Children by Rudyard Kipling
The Rhyme of the Three Captains by Rudyard Kipling
The Rhyme of the Three Sealers by Rudyard Kipling
The Rowers by Rudyard Kipling
The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin by Rudyard Kipling
The Sacrifice of Er-Heb by Rudyard Kipling
The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
The Sea-Wife by Rudyard Kipling
The Second Voyage by Rudyard Kipling
The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
The Sergeant's Weddin' by Rudyard Kipling
The Servant When He Reigneth by Rudyard Kipling
The Settler by Rudyard Kipling
The Shut-Eye Sentry by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of Seven Cities by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Banjo by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Cities by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Dead by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Little Hunter by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Old Guard by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Sons by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Women by Rudyard Kipling
The Songs of the Lathes by Rudyard Kipling
The Sons of Martha by Rudyard Kipling
The Spies' March by Rudyard Kipling
The Story of Ung by Rudyard Kipling
The Story of Uriah by Rudyard Kipling
The Stranger by Rudyard Kipling
The Survival by Rudyard Kipling
The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling
The Three-Decker by Rudyard Kipling
The Threshold by Rudyard Kipling
The Totem by Rudyard Kipling
The Tour by Rudyard Kipling
The Trade by Rudyard Kipling
The Truce of the Bear by Rudyard Kipling
The Two-Sided Man by Rudyard Kipling
The Undertaker's Horse by Rudyard Kipling
The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling
The Verdicts by Rudyard Kipling
The Veterans by Rudyard Kipling
The Vineyard by Rudyard Kipling
The Virginity by Rudyard Kipling
The Wage-Slaves by Rudyard Kipling
The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
The Way Through the Woods. by Rudyard Kipling
The Wet Litany by Rudyard Kipling
The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling
The White Mans Burden by Rudyard Kipling
The Widow at Windsor by Rudyard Kipling
The Widower by Rudyard Kipling
The Widow's Party by Rudyard Kipling
The Winners by Rudyard Kipling
The Wishing-Caps by Rudyard Kipling
The Young British Soldier by Rudyard Kipling
Things and the Man by Rudyard Kipling
Tin Fish by Rudyard Kipling
To a Lady, Persuading Her to a Car by Rudyard Kipling
To Motorists by Rudyard Kipling
To T A by Rudyard Kipling
To T. A. by Rudyard Kipling
To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling
To the True Romance by Rudyard Kipling
To the Unknown Goddess by Rudyard Kipling
To Thomas Atkins by Rudyard Kipling
To Wolcott Balestier by Rudyard Kipling
Tomlinson by Rudyard Kipling
Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
Troopin' by Rudyard Kipling
Two Kopjes by Rudyard Kipling
Two Months by Rudyard Kipling
Ulster by Rudyard Kipling
Untimely by Rudyard Kipling
We and They by Rudyard Kipling
What Happened by Rudyard Kipling
What the People Said by Rudyard Kipling
When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted by Rudyard Kipling
When 'Omer Smote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre by Rudyard Kipling
When the Great Ark by Rudyard Kipling
White Horses by Rudyard Kipling
Wilful Missing by Rudyard Kipling
With Drake in the Tropics by Rudyard Kipling
With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
You Must n't Swim... by Rudyard Kipling
Zion by Rudyard Kipling
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To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling
The Cities are full of pride,
Challenging each to each --
This from her mountain-side,
That from her burthened beach.
They count their ships full tale --
Their corn and oil and wine,
Derrick and loom and bale,
And rampart's gun-flecked line;
City by City they hail:
'Hast aught to match with mine?'
And the men that breed from them
They traffic up and down,
But cling to their cities' hem
As a child to their mother's gown.
When they talk with the stranger bands,
Dazed and newly alone;
When they walk in the stranger lands,
By roaring streets unknown;
Blessing her where she stands
For strength above their own.
(On high to hold her fame
That stands all fame beyond,
By oath to back the same,
Most faithful-foolish-fond;
Making her mere-breathed name
Their bond upon their bond.)
So thank I God my birth
Fell not in isles aside --
Waste headlands of the earth,
Or warring tribes untried --
But that she lent me worth
And gave me right to pride.
Surely in toil or fray
Under an alien sky,
Comfort it is to say:
'Of no mean city am I!'
(Neither by service nor fee
Come I to mine estate --
Mother of Cities to me,
For I was born in her gate,
Between the palms and the sea,
Where the world-end steamers wait.)
Now for this debt I owe,
And for her far-borne cheer
Must I make haste and go
With tribute to her pier.
And she shall touch and remit
After the use of kings
(Orderly, ancient, fit)
My deep-sea plunderings,
And purchase in all lands.
And this we do for a sign
Her power is over mine,
And mine I hold at her hands! | 
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