KIPLING'S LATEST.
' The Times' publishes a poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled 'The Lesson,' embodying the idea that Great Britain has earned from the war that her military system is all wrong and has had, in the words of one line, " All her most holy illusions knocked higher than Gilderoy's kite." Following are some of the stanzas : It was our fault and a very great fault and not 'he judgment of heaven, 7e made an army in our Tenage on an stand nine by seven, Which taithfu ly mirrored its Maker's ideal, equipment and mental attitude, And so we got our lesson and we ought to accept it with grati.ude. x Ve have sjent some handred million pounds to prove the fact once more— That horses .re quicker than man afoot, since two and two make four. An 1 hor.-es have four legs and men have tw legs an t two into four goes twice. nd nothing over, except out lesson, and very cheap at the nrice. It was our fault and a very great fault
and now we must turn it to use. We have forty million reasons for failure
bat not a single excuse. So the mure we work and the less we talk
The better the results we shall- get. Wo have had an iuipe i d lesson, it will make us an Empire yet.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2093, 3 September 1901, Page 4
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227KIPLING'S LATEST. Dunstan Times, Issue 2093, 3 September 1901, Page 4
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