THE FIVE NATIONS

THE SEVEN SEAS

BY RUDYARD KIPLING

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
GARDEN CITY

NEW YORK

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The Five Nations

Dedication

Before a midnight breaks in storm

The Sea and the Hills

Who hath desired the Sea?—the sight of salt

water unbounded

The Bell Buoy

They christened my brother of old

Cruisers

As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine

The Destroyers

The strength of twice three thousand horse .

White Horses

*Where run your colts at pasture?'

The Second Voyage

We've sent our little Cupids all ashore

The Dykes

We have no heart for the fishing, we have no

hand for the oar

The Song of Diego Valdez

The God of Fair Beginnings

The Broken Men

For things we never mention

The Feet of the Young Men

Now the Four-way Lodge is opened, now the

Hunting Winds are loose

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The Truce of the Bear

Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white

men go

The Old Men

This is our lot if we live so long and labour

unto the end

The Explorer

“There's no sense in going farther—it's the

edge of cultivation'

The Wage-Slaves

Oh glorious are the guarded heights

The Burial

When that great Kings return to clay.

General Joubert

With those that bred, with those that loosed

the strife.

The Palace

When I was a King and a Mason-a Master

proven and skilled

Sussex

God gave all men all earth to love .

Song of the Wise Children

When the darkened Fifties dip to the North .

Buddha at Kamakura

Oh ye who tread the Narrow Way.

The White Man's Burden

Take up the White Man's burden

Pharaoh and the Sergeant

Said England unto Pharaoh, 'I must make a

man of you'

Our Lady of the Snows

A Nation spoke to a Nation

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