By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say:"Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!" Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear… Continue reading Mandalay – Poem by Rudyard Kipling
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If – by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---?fbclid=IwAR3D22eVr0gggh2W2NCFXzdhvo_9IQxEYhN0cl8ZOQ-szvSKLOwF696s4BM (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies) If you can keep your head when all about you      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,    But make allowance for their doubting too;   If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,    Or being… Continue reading If – by Rudyard Kipling