by Didact | Oct 29, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
All of you are doubtless aware of the news that the Boy Scouts of America will soon start allowing girls to join the organisation at the Cub Scouts level and will eventually open up the Eagle Scout rank to them as well. I don’t know about you, but that...
by Didact | Sep 27, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots...
by Didact | Aug 23, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
When the ‘arf-made recruity goes out to the East ‘E acts like a babe an’ ‘e drinks like a beast, An’ ‘e wonders because ‘e is frequent deceased Ere ‘e’s fit for to serve as a soldier. Serve, serve, serve as a...
by Didact | Jul 23, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my soul going out from afar? Shall I fall to your hand as a victim of crafty and cautions shikar? Have I met you and passed you already, unknowing, unthinking and blind? Shall I meet you next session at Simla, O sweetest and...
by Didact | Jul 1, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
Inspired by Relampago Furioso’s recent post which quoted this poem in full. It really is astonishing to discover just how much masculine wisdom there is to be found in Kipling’s works. WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He...
by Didact | Jun 13, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
For all we have and are, For all our children’s fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away, In wantonness o’erthrown. There is nothing left to-day But steel and fire and...
by Didact | Apr 27, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
Friend and reader LastRedoubt introduced me to this particular gem about 8 months back. It remains today as it was then, a stark and timeless reminder of the importance of obedience to the Word of God, and the need for temperance and humility, and the catastrophic...
by Didact | Mar 10, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
Seeing as how it was International Women’s Day recently, and seeing as how a lot of very silly and uppity women and “celebrities” in the West immediately took to social media to mark the occasion with a lot of misandry and nonsense, it might be worth...
by Didact | Feb 9, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
I don’t know how y’all feel about this, but my vote is for this as the unofficial anthem of the Manosphere. There’s a Legion that never was ‘listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the...
by Didact | Jan 23, 2017 | Kipling, Uncategorized
It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy – willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate. Their voices were...
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