greykit.poetry — #empire
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1902
[rudyard-kipling]
The Islanders
A savage rebuke to a complacent England — “the flannelled fools at the wicket … the muddied oafs at the goals.”
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1899
[rudyard-kipling]
The White Man’s Burden
Kipling’s notorious exhortation to the United States to take up colonial rule of the Philippines.
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1897
[rudyard-kipling]
Recessional
A hymn against imperial pride, written for Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
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1896
[rudyard-kipling]
The Song of the Banjo
The brash, portable music that follows the soldier and settler to the ends of the Empire.
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1890
[rudyard-kipling]
The Widow at Windsor
The Empire’s long reach, sung by the men who garrison it for “the Widow” — Queen Victoria.