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Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Among Kipling’s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems “Mandalay” and “Gunga Din.” Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award.
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Departmental Ditties - Rudyard Kipling
DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES
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Rudyard Kipling
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Departmental Ditties
GENERAL SUMMARY
ARMY HEADQUARTERS
STUDY OF AN ELEVATION, IN INDIAN INK
THE STORY OF URIAH
THE POST THAT FITTED
PUBLIC WASTE
DELILAH
WHAT HAPPENED
PINK DOMINOES
THE MAN WHO COULD WRITE
MUNICIPAL
A CODE OF MORALS
THE LAST DEPARTMENT
DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES
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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 share
In vigil or toil or ease,
One joy or woe that I did not know,
Dear hearts across