3 Rudyard Kipling Quotes on Empire

Rudyard Kipling quotes on empire

75. There rise her timeless capitals of Empires daily born, Whose plinths are laid at midnight, and whose streets are packed at morn; And here come hired youths and maids that feign to love or sin In tones like rusty razor-blades to tunes like smitten tin.

89. And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: 'A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.'

105. 'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse - soldier an' sailor too.