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    Departmental Ditties
    Departmental Ditties
    Departmental Ditties
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    Departmental Ditties

    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 Departmental Ditties includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781508078708
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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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      Departmental Ditties - Rudyard Kipling

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      DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES

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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

      Departmental Ditties

      GENERAL SUMMARY

      ARMY HEADQUARTERS

      STUDY OF AN ELEVATION, IN INDIAN INK

      THE STORY OF URIAH

      THE POST THAT FITTED

      PUBLIC WASTE

      DELILAH

      WHAT HAPPENED

      PINK DOMINOES

      THE MAN WHO COULD WRITE

      MUNICIPAL

      A CODE OF MORALS

      THE LAST DEPARTMENT

      DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES

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

      I have eaten your bread and salt,

      I have drunk your water and wine,

      The deaths ye died I have watched beside,

      And the lives that ye led were mine.

      Was there aught that I did not share

      In vigil or toil or ease,

      One joy or woe that I did not know,

      Dear hearts across

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