KIPLING POEM

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 10

KIPLING POEM

WRITTEN FOR HIS SISTER ‘TIME WHEN WE WERE HAPPY” (From a Correspondent) LO>*LlQ.i«> December 1 • Let the grown-up people slide, Let'.-> go back to hair past three, I "Al\vay s ' ne\v 'l. you' 'and me. Whispering' as ymi lean more near. Does you like it, sister dear?” These six lines of a hitherto unpubished poem by Kipling “to his little ister,” sent with a gift to her shortly »ofore her wedding, were quoted at a Meeting in London last night of the iipltng Society. Mrs Fleming, sister of Kipling, who [uoted the verse, was giving reminisienses of their early life together, and eoalled memories of when she and he ived with their parents at Lahore bewocn 188 i and 1887. Kipling himself icscribed this period of his life as "a into when we wore all happy, and we mew it.” Mrs Fleming spoke of Ihe unhappitoss endured by her brother when, as diihlren, they were sent homo from ndia to live at Southsoa. “The woman who look charge of us vas very unkind to Rudy and ualigned him greatly,” she said. "She won did her '.test to make, mischief )ct\\;cen us. hut she did not succeed. never onee lost faith in my brother uni l always knew from Ihe* \ ery be mining that ho would one day be a