With those who shaped him to the thing he is—
When this dumb Terror shall reply to God,
After the silence of the centuries?
—Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, and used by kind permission of author and publisher.
TOMMY
By Rudyard Kipling
I went to a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer,
The publican ’e up an’ sez, “We serve no redcoats here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
I out into the street again, an’ to myself sez I: