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    The Seven Seas
    The Seven Seas
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    The Seven Seas

    By Rudyard Kipling

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    Rudyard Kipling was a prolific British writer and poet.  Kipling’s children fiction, specifically The Jungle Books and Just So Stories, are some of the most famous in English literature.  This edition of The Seven Seas includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781508078678
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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      The Seven Seas - Rudyard Kipling

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      THE SEVEN SEAS

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      Rudyard Kipling

      KYPROS PRESS

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author.

      This book is a work of poetry; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2015 by Rudyard Kipling

      Interior design by Pronoun

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Seven Seas

      A Song of the English.

      The Coastwise Lights.

      The Song of the Dead.

      The Deep-sea Cables.

      The Song of the Sons.

      The Song of the Cities.

      The First Chantey.

      The Last Chantey.

      The Merchantmen.

      McAndrews’ Hymn.

      The Miracles.

      The Native-Born.

      The King.

      The Rhyme of the Three Sealers.

      The Derelict.

      The Song of the Banjo.

      The Liner She’s a Lady.

      Mulholland’s Contract.

      Anchor Song.

      The Sea-Wife.

      Hymn Before Action.

      To the True Romance.

      The Flowers.

      The Last Rhyme of True Thomas.

      The Story of Ung.

      The Three-Decker.

      An American.

      The Mary Gloster.

      Sestina of the Tramp-Royal.

      THE SEVEN SEAS

      ..................

      A SONG OF THE ENGLISH.

      ..................

      Fair is our lot — O goodly is our heritage!

      (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!)

      For the Lord our God Most High

      He hath made the deep as dry,

      He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the Earth!

      Yea, though we sinned — and our rulers went from righteousness —

      Deep in all dishonour though we stained our garments’ hem.

      Oh be ye not dismayed,

      Though we stumbled and we strayed,

      We were led by evil counsellors — the Lord shall deal with them.

      Hold ye the Faith — the Faith our Fathers sealèd us;

      Whoring not with visions — overwise and overstale.

      Except ye pay the Lord

      Single heart and single sword,

      Of your children in their bondage shall He ask them treble-tale.

      Keep ye the Law — be swift in all obedience.

      Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford.

      Make ye sure to each his own

      That he reap what he hath sown;

      By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord.

      * * * * *

      Hear now a song — a song of broken interludes —

      A song of little cunning; of a singer nothing worth.

      Through the naked words and mean

      May ye see the truth between

      As the singer knew and touched it in the ends of all the Earth!

      THE COASTWISE LIGHTS.

      ..................

      Our brows are wreathed with spindrift and the weed is on our knees;

      Our loins are battered ‘neath us by the swinging, smoking seas.

      From reef and rock and skerry — over headland, ness and voe —

      The Coastwise Lights of England watch the ships of England go!

      Through the endless summer evenings, on the lineless, level floors;

      Through the yelling Channel tempest when the syren hoots and roars —

      By day the dipping house-flag and by night the rocket’s trail —

      As the sheep that graze behind us so we know them where they hail.

      We bridge across the dark, and bid the helmsman have a care,

      The flash that wheeling inland wakes his sleeping wife to prayer;

      From our vexed eyries, head to gale, we bind in burning chains

      The lover from the sea-rim drawn — his love in English lanes.

      We greet the clippers wing-and-wing that race the Southern wool;

      We warn the crawling cargo-tanks of Bremen, Leith and Hull;

      To each and all our equal lamp at peril of the sea —

      The white wall-sided warships or the whalers of Dundee!

      Come up, come in from Eastward, from the guard-ports of the Morn!

      Beat up, beat in from Southerly, O gipsies of the Horn!

      Swift shuttles of an Empire’s loom that weave us main to main,

      The Coastwise Lights of England give you welcome back again!

      Go, get you gone up-Channel with the sea-crust on your plates;

      Go, get you into London with the burden of your freights!

      Haste, for they talk of Empire there, and say, if any seek,

      The Lights of England sent you and by silence shall ye speak.

      THE SONG OF THE DEAD.

      ..................

      HEAR NOW THE SONG OF the Dead — in the North by the torn berg-edges —

      They that look still to the Pole, asleep by their hide-stripped sledges.

      Song of the Dead in the South — in the sun by their skeleton horses,

      Where the warrigal whimpers and bays through the dust of the sere river-courses.

      Song of the Dead in the East — in the heat-rotted jungle hollows,

      Where the dog-ape barks in the kloof — in the brake of the buffalo-wallows.

      Song of the Dead in the West — in the Barrens, the snow that betrayed them,

      Where the wolverine tumbles their packs from the camp and the grave-mound they made them;

      Hear now the Song of the Dead!

      I.

      We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town;

      We yearned beyond the skyline where the strange roads go down.

      Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power with the Need.

      Till the Soul that is not man’s soul was lent us to lead.

      As the deer breaks — as the steer breaks — from the herd where they graze,

      In the faith of little children we went on our ways.

      Then the wood failed — then the food failed — then

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