Kipling Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/category/kipling Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:57:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 182200397 “Justice” by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2020/11/justice-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/11/justice-by-rudyard-kipling.html#respond Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:00:12 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=7986 Today is Remembrance Day, or Veterans’ Day in the USA. Over a century ago, the Great Powers sent their young men to die in the slaughter-pens of the Great War for causes that seem downright absurd now. The measure of the horror of that war is to be found in the fact that NOT ONE […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/11/justice-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 0 7986 The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2020/04/the-rabbis-song-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/04/the-rabbis-song-by-rudyard-kipling.html#respond Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:00:00 +0000 “The House Surgeon”–Actions and Reactions 2 Samuel XIV. 14. If Thought can reach to Heaven, On Heaven let it dwell, For fear the Thought be given Like power to reach to Hell. For fear the desolation And darkness of thy mind Perplex an habitation Which thou hast left behind. Let nothing linger after– No whimpering […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/04/the-rabbis-song-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 0 306 A Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2019/01/a-pict-song-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/01/a-pict-song-by-rudyard-kipling.html#respond Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +0000 (Speaking of walls and whether or not they work…) Rome never looks where she treads. Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads; And Rome never heeds when we bawl. Her sentries pass on–that is all, And we gather behind them in hordes, And plot to reconquer the Wall, With […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/01/a-pict-song-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 0 1342 The Stranger by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2018/09/the-stranger-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2018/09/the-stranger-by-rudyard-kipling.html#respond Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:17:00 +0000 The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk — I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock They may do ill or well, But they tell the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2018/09/the-stranger-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 0 1578 A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2018/06/a-song-of-white-men-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2018/06/a-song-of-white-men-by-rudyard-kipling.html#respond Fri, 01 Jun 2018 02:00:00 +0000 Time for a spot of good old-fashioned poetry – written by a man with one of the greatest moustaches of all time: Now, this is the cup the White Men drink When they go to right a wrong, And that is the cup of the old world’s hate — Cruel and strained and strong. We […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2018/06/a-song-of-white-men-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 0 1794 The Wage-Slaves by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2018/04/the-wage-slaves-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2018/04/the-wage-slaves-by-rudyard-kipling.html#respond Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:27:00 +0000 Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide– Self-exiled from our gross delights– Above, beyond, outside: An ampler arc their spirit swings– Commands a juster view– We have their word for all these things, No doubt their words are true. Yet we, the bond slaves of our day, Whom dirt and danger press– […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2018/04/the-wage-slaves-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 0 1858 The Explorer by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2018/02/the-explorer-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2018/02/the-explorer-by-rudyard-kipling.html#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:00:00 +0000 “There’s no sense in going further — it’s the edge of cultivation,” So they said, and I believed it — broke my land and sowed my crop — Built my barns and strung my fences in the little border station Tucked away below the foothills where the trails run out and stop. Till a voice, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2018/02/the-explorer-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 3 2028 England’s Answer by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2018/01/englands-answer-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2018/01/englands-answer-by-rudyard-kipling.html#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:23:00 +0000 Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man. Flesh of the flesh that I bred, bone of the bone that I bare; Stark as your sons shall be — stern as your fathers were. Deeper than speech our love, stronger […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2018/01/englands-answer-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 0 2080 Norman and Saxon by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2017/12/norman-and-saxon-by-rudyard-kipling.html https://didacticmind.com/2017/12/norman-and-saxon-by-rudyard-kipling.html#respond Thu, 28 Dec 2017 02:44:00 +0000 “My son,” said the Norman Baron, “I am dying, and you will be heir To all the broad acres in England that William gave me for share When he conquered the Saxon at Hastings, and a nice little handful it is. But before you go over to rule it I want you to understand this:– […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2017/12/norman-and-saxon-by-rudyard-kipling.html/feed 0 2138 The Absent-Minded Beggar by Rudyard Kipling https://didacticmind.com/2017/11/the-absent-minded-beggar-by-rudyard.html https://didacticmind.com/2017/11/the-absent-minded-beggar-by-rudyard.html#respond Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000 In honour of all of the veterans who have fought and sacrificed for this country- and in protest of the disgraceful treatment of those same men by the very nation for which they gave all. When you’ve shouted ‘ Rule Britannia,’ when you’ve sung ‘ God save the Queen,’ When you’ve finished killing Kruger with […]

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