Category: Poetry

The Five Nations, Volume I

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936· 4 chapters· 12,347 words

Bracketed page numbers, such as [Page 18], at the beginning of each Poem, were added as a Search aid by Transcriber, as the Table of Contents is in alphabetical, rather than page number sequence.

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1. Part 1

Bracketed page numbers, such as [Page 18], at the beginning of each Poem, were added as a Search aid by Transcriber, as the Table of Contents is in alphabetical, rather than pag...

2. Part 2

Now we can only wait till the day, wait and apportion our shame. These are the dykes our fathers left, but we would not look to the same. Time and again were we warned of the dy...

3. Part 3

When that great Kings return to clay, Or Emperors in their pride, Grief of a day shall fill a day, Because its creature died. But we--we reckon not with those Whom the mere Fate...

4. Part 4

She came to the Old Queen’s presence, in the Hall of Our Thousand Years-- In the Hall of the Five Free Nations that are peers among their peers: Royal she gave the greeting, loy...