Independence: Rectorial address delivered at St. Andrews October 10, 1923

INDEPENDENCE
RECTORIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT ST. ANDREWS OCTOBER 10, 1923
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1924
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY RUDYARD KIPLING
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY. N. Y.
INDEPENDENCE

INDEPENDENCE
The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young, is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation. Now that I am older I purpose, if you, my constituents, will permit me, to hand on the Sacred Torch of Boredom.
In the First Volume, then, of the Pickering Edition of the works of the late Robert Burns, on the 171st page, you will find this stanza: