RUDYARD KIPLING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVI, Issue 2211, 21 May 1894, Page 4

RUDYARD KIPLING.

“Kipling is a relation of my wife’s, though ho does not know it.” Dr Parker in an interview in The Idler. The secrets of the sea are his, the mysteries of Ind, He knows minutely every way in which mankind has sinned, He has by heart the lightships ’twixt the Goodwins and the Cape, The language of the elephant, the ethics of the ape; He knows the slang of Silver street, the horrors of Lahore; And now the man-seal breasts the waves

that buffet Labrador; Ho knows Samoan Stevenson, he knows the Yankee Twain, The value of Theosophy, of cheek, and Mr Caine j , He knows each fine gradation ’twixt the

General and the sub,. The term employed by Atkins when they sling him from a pub.. He knows an Ekka pony's points, tbo leper’s drear abode, The seamy side of Simla, the flaring Mile End roadj Ho knows the Devil’s tone to souls too pitiful to damn. He knows the taste of every regimental

mess in “ chain.” Ho knows enough to annotate tho Bible

verse by verse, And how to draw tho shekels from the

British public’s purse, But, varied though his knowledge is, it has

its limitation: Alas, ho doesn’t know he’s Dr Parker’s

wife’s relation. —Pall Mall Gazette