A Diversity of Creatures

by Rudyard Kipling

'Blessed be the English and all they make or do.

Cursed be the Hereticks who doubt that this is true!'

'Amen,' quo' Jobson, 'but where I mean to die

Is neither rule nor calliper to judge the matter by:

'But Himalaya heavenward-heading, sheer and vast, sheer and vast,

In a million summits bedding on the last world's past;

A certain sacred mountain where the scented cedars climb,

And--the feet of my Beloved hurrying back through Time!'

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