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1903 [rudyard-kipling] Boots
The Five Nations

The hypnotic, maddening tramp of infantry on an endless route-march (“Infantry Columns”).

#soldiers #marching #1900s
1902 [rudyard-kipling] Sussex
The Five Nations

A lover’s map of the South Downs — “Yea, Sussex by the sea!”

#england #landscape #home #1900s
1902 [rudyard-kipling] The Islanders
The Five Nations

A savage rebuke to a complacent England — “the flannelled fools at the wicket … the muddied oafs at the goals.”

#empire #england #satire #1900s
1899 [rudyard-kipling] The White Man’s Burden
The Five Nations

Kipling’s notorious exhortation to the United States to take up colonial rule of the Philippines.

#empire #imperialism #1890s
1897 [rudyard-kipling] Recessional
The Five Nations

A hymn against imperial pride, written for Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

#hymn #empire #1890s

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