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Barrack Room Ballads

Rudyard Kipling

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Now in Injia's sunny clime, Where I used to spend my time A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen, Of all them blackfaced crew The finest man I knew Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din. He was "Din! Din! Din! You limpin' lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din! Hi! slippery hitherao! Water, get it! Panee lao! You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din." The uniform 'e wore Was nothin' much before, An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind, For a piece o' twisty rag An' a goatskin water-bag Was all the field-equipment 'e could find. When the sweatin' troop-train lay In a sidin' through the day, Where the 'eat would make your bloomin' eyebrows crawl, We shouted "Harry By!" Till our throats were bricky-dry, Then we wopped 'im 'cause 'e couldn't serve us all. It was "Din! Din! Din! You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been? You put some juldee in it Or I'll m. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Twelve hundred million men are spread
About this Earth, and I and You
Wonder, when you and I are dead,
What will those luckless millions do?

Was hard reading. I didn't enjoy it very much.

Rudyard Kipling , one of prodigious writer whom I admire a plentitood. I have smmatring longing for ballad but Daney deever, loot, oont , fuzzy-wuzzy , young British soldiers, are few among of them who made me obstinate in mine liking,I hope it may does same to you as to me.

Classic Kipling, and a history lesson for a lot of military expeditions in that part of the world.

Took a bit to translate some of the slang into modern English use(american). But it became much faster once I had my head voice speaking it instead.

Funny how a good deal of the themes are still to this day true.

I am not sure this is the exact version that I have. Mine is a 1906 hardback with a picture of a viking longboat on the cover.

I really like Kipling's poetry. Some of my favorites are "Mandalay," "Gunga Din," "Tommy," and "Danny Deever."

This is stern, sometimes hard and unflinching, but it tells it l

Probably the most impressive collection of poems glorifying (sometimes rightfully, sometimes not quite so) the colonial policy and foreign troops. Most likely, quite a few political/military figures escaped the historical obscurity only because of their place in Kipling's ballads.

Rudyard Kipling is, I think, someone we think we should like only at arm’s length, through filters, with a snowstorm of disclaimers attached, using every if and but and apologising in advance with bells & whistles & hooters that yes he had some unacceptable opinions and used at least one unacceptabl

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