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A Diversity of Creatures
Rudyard Kipling
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If you want to change her nature you have got to give her lime!'
Ogier sent his wains to Lewes, twenty hours' solemn walk,
And drew back great abundance of the cool, grey, healing chalk.
And old Hobden spread it broadcast, never heeding what was in't;
Which is why in cleaning ditches, now and then we find a flint.
Ogier died. His sons grew English. Anglo-Saxon was their name,
Till out of blossomed Normandy another pirate came;
For Duke William conquered England and divided with his men,
And our Lower River-field he gave to William of Warenne.
But the Brook (you know her habit) rose one rainy Autumn night
And tore down sodden flitches of the bank to left and right.
So, said William to his Bailiff as they rode their dripping rounds:
'Hob, what about that River-bit--the Brook's got up no bounds?'
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Community Reviews
This is a more varied collection in subject matter and tone than I had remembered from my first reading of it over 30 years ago. The writing is superb throughout; Kipling was a master craftsman and his prose is always a pleasure to read; the stories themselves I found more variable in quality.
Some c
I don't think I got all what he was trying to tell but oh well
Reading Kipling’s short stories is always for me an occluded glimpse into a far time. This collection is more so than others, however. Much of it is very hard to understand, and I expect I often failed.
It starts out with a story from what I think is the same world of The Night Mail. But it’s one in
A collection of Kipling’s strangest tales with almost every one accompanied by a linked poem. As an SF fan I am of course delighted that the very first tale in the collection is science fiction “As Easy as A.B.C.” the sequel to his “With the Night Mail” It also includes a depiction of hatred on the