Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Hohenzollern, I guess I shall work till I drop.' And an English delegate 'The weak an' the lame be blowed! 'I've a berth in the Sou'-West workshops, a home in the Wandsworth Road 'And till the. And the Spirit of Man that is in Him to the light of the vision woke And the men drew back from the paper, as a Yankee delegate a girl in Jersey City who works on the telephone 'We're going to hitch our horses and dig for a house of our own, 'With gas and water connections, and steam-heat through to the top 'And, W. And each one heard Her laughing as each one saw Her plain-Saidie, Mimi, or Olga, Gretchen, or Mary Jane. And the young King said 'I have found it, the road to the rest ye seek 'The strong shall wait for the weary, the hale shall halt for the weak 'With the even tramp of an army where no man breaks from the line, 'Ye shall march to peace and plenty in the bond of brotherhood-sign!' The paper lay on the table, the strong heads bowed thereby, And a wail went up from the 'Ay, sign-give rest, for we die!' A hand was stretched to the goose-quill, a fist was cramped to scrawl, When-the laugh of a blue-eyed maiden ran clear through the council-hall. And some were black from the furnace, and some were brown from the soil, And some were blue from the dye-vat but all were wearied of toil. The Lords of Their Hands assembled from the East and the West they drew-Baltimore, Lille, and Essen, Brummagem, Clyde, and Crewe. AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to help the weak in their need He sent a word to the peoples, who struggle, and pant, and sweat, That the straw might be counted fairly and the tally of bricks be set. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.

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