The Years Between

by Rudyard Kipling

CONTENTS

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• [CONTENTS] [vii]
• [INDEX TO FIRST LINES] [xi]
• [BENEFACTORS, THE] [96]
• [CHOICE, THE] [35]
• ['CITY OF BRASS, THE'] [148]
• [COVENANT, THE] [13]
• [CRAFTSMAN, THE] [91]
• [DEAD KING, THE] [100]
• [DEATH-BED, A] [106]
• [DECLARATION OF LONDON, THE] [6]
• [DEDICATION] [v]
• [EN-DOR] [55]
• [EPITAPHS] [135]
• [FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, THE] [128]
• ['FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE'] [21]
• [FRANCE] [15]
• [GEHAZI] [109]
• [GETHSEMANE] [85]
• [HOLY-WAR, THE] [38]
• [HOUSES, THE] [42]
• [HYÆNAS, THE] [68]
• [JUSTICE] [156]
• [IRISH GUARDS, THE] [48]
• [LORD ROBERTS] [31]
• [MARY'S SON] [80]
• [MESOPOTAMIA] [65]
• [MY BOY JACK] [61]
• [NATIVITY, A] [52]
• [NATURAL THEOLOGY] [121]
• [OLDEST SONG, THE] [119]
• [OUTLAWS, THE] [27]
• [PILGRIM'S WAY, A] [114]
• [PRO-CONSULS, THE] [87]
• [QUESTION, THE] [33]
• [RECANTATION, A] [58]
• [ROWERS, THE] [1]
• [RUSSIA TO THE PACIFISTS] [44]
• [SONG AT COCK-CROW, A] [125]
• [SONG IN STORM, A] [24]
• [SONG OF THE LATHES, THE] [81]
• [SONS OF MARTHA, THE] [75]
• [SPIES' MARCH, THE] [70]
• [THINGS AND THE MAN] [93]
• [ULSTER] [9]
• [VERDICTS, THE] [63]
• [VETERANS, THE] [5]
• [VIRGINITY, THE] [112]
• [ZION] [29]

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INDEX TO FIRST LINES

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• Across a world where all men grieve, [156]
• A. 'I was a "have"' B. 'I was a "have-not,"' [135]
• After the burial-parties leave, [68]
• Ah! What avails the classic bent, [96]
• A tinker out of Bedford, [38]
  
• Be well assured that on our side, [24]
• Brethren, how shall it fare with me, [33]
• Broke to every known mischance, lifted over all, [15]
  
• For all we have and are, [21]
  
• God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, [44]
  
• 'Have you news of my boy Jack?' [61]
• He passed in the very battle-smoke, [31]
  
• I ate my fill of a whale that died, [121]
• I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way, [114]
• If you stop to find out what your wages will be, [80]
• In a land that the sand overlays—the ways to her gates are untrod, [148]
  
• Not in the thick of the fight, [63]
  
• Oh ye who hold the written clue, [93]
• Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid, [91]
  
• Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower, [v]
  
• The Babe was laid in the Manger, [52]
• The banked oars fell an hundred strong, [1]
• The dark eleventh hour, [9]
• The Doorkeepers of Zion, [29]
• The fans and the beltings they roar round me, [81]
• The first time that Peter denied his Lord, [125]
• The Garden called Gethsemane, [85]
• The overfaithful sword returns the user, [87]
• There are no leaders to lead us to honour, and yet without leaders we sally, [70]
• The road to En-dor is easy to tread, [55]
• These were never your true love's eyes, [119]
• The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part, [75]
• They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, [65]
• 'This is the State above the Law, [106]
• To-day, across our fathers' graves, [5]
• To the Judge of Right and Wrong, [35]
• Through learned and laborious years, [27]
• Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose, [112]
• 'Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad, [42]
  
• We're not so old in the Army List, [48]
• We thought we ranked above the chance of ill, [13]
• We were all one heart and one race, [6]
• What boots it on the Gods to call? [58]
• 'Whence comest thou, Gehazi, [109]
• When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, [128]
• Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? [100]

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THE ROWERS

1902

(When Germany proposed that England should help her in a naval demonstration to collect debts from Venezuela.)

The banked oars fell an hundred strong,
And backed and threshed and ground,
But bitter was the rowers' song
As they brought the war-boat round.