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Title: Songs from Books
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Release Date: April 3, 2005 [EBook #15529]
Language: English
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SONGS FROM BOOKS
BY
RUDYARD KIPLING
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1914
COPYRIGHT
_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_
_First Edition October_ 1913
_Reprinted October (twice), November_ 1913, 1914
_PREFACE_
_I have collected in this volume practically all the
verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books.
In several cases where only a few lines of verse were
originally used, I have given in full the song, etc., from
which they were taken._
_RUDYARD KIPLING._
'_CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS_'
_Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die.
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,