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And you find your soul and its requests plentifully filled with the humanity of the Indian people.-Submitted by Vitor Antonio de Limaįirst collected in 1892, these famous poems by Kipling portray the experiences of soldiers sent around the world to defend the British Empire-all for little pay and less appreciation.-Submitted by Nibel Muhammedįan of this book? Help us introduce it to others by writing a better introduction for it. By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ eastward to the sea, There’s a Burma girl a-settin’, and I know she thinks o’ me For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say: ‘Come you back, you British soldier come you back to Mandalay’. You smell the odors and thrill with the colors. You listen to the local accent and the engines of the trains, and the noise of the crowded streets. When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an' took - the same as me The market-girls an' fishermen, The shepherds an' the sailors, too, They 'eard old songs turn up again, But kep' it quiet - same as you They knew 'e stole 'e knew they knowed. He is a fine observer of the soul, of the different and varied characters he found in his life in India. You go with him through the once-called Indochina, a vast territory dominated by England. Then all of a sudden, after religion has kept its secrets from your soul and no human being in any occasion could answer the deepest requests of your soul, then and there is Rudyard Kipling's poetry.

You go all your life learning without making any sense of anything. Kenneth Cranham presents a selection of his favourites from Rudyard Kiplings 1892 collection of poems, which were inspired by the.

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