Other editions of book Departmental Ditties, and Ballads, and Barrack-Room Ballads

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. 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 shareIn vigil or toil or ease,—One joy or woe that I did not know,Dear hearts across the seas?I have written the tale of our lifeFor a sheltered people's mirth,In jesting guise—but ye are wise,And ye know what the jest is worth.

Old volume of poems and songs (ditties and ballads), some amusing, some a little bawdy (tame by today's standards) and a little naughty, some of fine-edged political and bureaucratic sarcasm, some lovely, some touching in their capture of the human essence and spirit. Hardcover cloth-on-board binding with "gold" lettering on spine, and a circular impress on the front of a sauwastika (backwards swastika, and a Buddhist symbol of the sun, or life, light, and health) with Kipling's "signature" underneath it. This particular image was used on almost all of Kipling's books published prior to WWII (this one was published in 1913).

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Excerpt from Barrack-Room Ballads and Departmental DittiesWe'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.We took our chanst among the Kyber 'ills, The Boers knocked us silly at a mile, The Burman guv us Irriwaddy chills, An' a Zulu impi dished us up in styl But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We 'e1d our bloomin' own, the papers say, But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oller.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888).His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date.He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."

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Excerpt from Barrack-Room Ballads and Departmental DittiesWe'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.We took our chanst among the Kyber 'ills, The Boers knocked us silly at a mile, The Burman guv us Irriwaddy chills, An' a Zulu impi dished us up in styl But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We 'e1d our bloomin' own, the papers say, But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oller.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.