A BALLADE OF PROTEST.
(To the Address of Master Rodyard Kipling, Por long, unjoyed, we’ve heard you sing Of politics and army bills. Of money-lust and cricketing, Ti Of clothes and fear aai jther ills; Meanwhile the palm-trees and the Hills Have lacked a bard to voice their lay; Poet, ere time your lyre-string stills. Sing us again of Mandalay! Unsung the East lies glimmering. Unsung the palm trees toss their frills. Unsung the seas their splendors fling, The while you prate of laws and tills. Each man his destiny fulfils; Can it be yours to loose and stray; In sophist garb to waste your quills?—■ Sing us again of Mandalay! Sing us again in rhymes that ring, In Master-Voice that lives and thrills; Sin’ us again of wind and wing, Of temple bells and jungle trilb. And if Pegasus ever wills To lead you down some other way, Go bjnd him in his olden thills— Sing us again of Mandalay! Master, regard the plaint we bring, And'harken to the prayers we pray; Lay down your law and sennoning— Sing us again of Mandalay. —Henry Louis Mencken, in ‘ Critic.’
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Evening Star, Issue 11626, 10 July 1902, Page 8
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189A BALLADE OF PROTEST. Evening Star, Issue 11626, 10 July 1902, Page 8
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