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The Years Between
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Poetry collection in early 20th-century verse form, "The Years Between" by Rudyard Kipling consists of poems and reflections written primarily in the aftermath of World War I. The work engages with themes of loss, duty, and human endurance, focusing on the societal and personal repercussions of the war. Kipling uses poetic narrative to examine the emotional toll borne by soldiers and their families, addressing issues of sacrifice, memory, and honour with a tone that combines reflection and moral inquiry. The collection includes poems such as "My Boy Jack," which reflects maternal grief, along with others that investigate the broader human consequences of conflict and heroism.
Written during the period from 1895 to 1923, the work captures the cultural and emotional climate of post-war Britain and America. As a collection, it reflects the author's perspective on warfare, societal obligation, and remembrance, contributing to the broader literary response to the war's aftermath in that era.
Written during the period from 1895 to 1923, the work captures the cultural and emotional climate of post-war Britain and America. As a collection, it reflects the author's perspective on warfare, societal obligation, and remembrance, contributing to the broader literary response to the war's aftermath in that era.
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God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, 44 'Have you news of my boy Jack?' 61 He passed in the very battle-smoke, 31 I ate my fill of a whale that died, 121 I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way, 114 If you stop to find out what your wages will be, 80 In a land that the sand overlays—the ways to her gates are untrod, 148 Not in the thick of the fight, 63 Oh ye who hold the written clue, 93 Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid, 91 Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower, v The Babe was laid in the Manger, 52 The banked oars fell an hundred strong, 1 The dark eleventh hour, 9 The Doorkeepers of Zion, 29 The fans and the beltings they roar round me, 81 The first time that Peter denied his Lord, 125 The Garden called Gethsemane, 85 The overfaithful sword returns the user, 87 There are no leaders to lead us to honour, and yet without leaders we sally, 70 The road to En-dor is easy to tread, 55 These were never your true love's eyes, 119 The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part, 75 They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, 65 'This is the State above the Law, 106 To-day, across our fathers' graves, 5 To the Judge of Right and Wrong, 35 Through learned and laborious years, 27 Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose, 112 'Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad, 42 We're not so old in the Army List, 48 We thought we ranked above the chance of ill, 13 We were all one heart and one race, 6 What boots it on the Gods to call? 58 'Whence comest thou, Gehazi, 109 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, 128 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? 100 THE ROWERS 1902 (When Germany proposed that England should help her in a naval demonstration to collect debts from Venezuela.) The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As they brought the war-boat round. They had no heart for the rally and roar That makes the whale-bath smoke—…
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