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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 852 |
| Rudyard Kipling. (1865–1936) (continued) |
| 8209 |
| A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair. |
| The Vampire. |
| 8210 |
| The tumult and the shouting dies,— The Captains and the Kings depart,— Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. |
| Recessional. |
| 8211 |
| Lest we forget—lest we forget! |
| Recessional. |
| 8212 |
| Oh the road to Mandalay Where the flyin’-fishes play An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay! |
| Mandalay. |
| 8213 |
| Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ar’n’t no Ten Commandments an’ a man can raise a thirst. |
| Mandalay. |
| 8214 |
| Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat. |
| Ballad of East and West. |
| 8215 |
| It’s Tommy this an’ Tommy that an’ “Chuck ’im out, the brute,” But it’s “Savior of ’is country,” when the guns begin to shoot. |
| Tommy. |
| 8216 |
| Single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints. |
| Tommy. |
| 8217 |
| It’s clever, but is it art? |
| The Conundrum of the Workshops. |
| 8218 |
| They’ve taken of his buttons off an’ cut his stripes away An’ they’re hangin’ Danny Deever in the morning. |
| Danny Deever. |
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