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TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES
By Rudyard Kipling
CONTENTS
from the Masjid-al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi)
THE CAPTIVE
Poseidon'S Law
THE BONDS OF DISCIPLINE
The Runners
A SAHIBS' WAR
The Wet Litany
"THEIR LAWFUL OCCASIONS"--PART I.
"THEIR LAWFUL OCCASIONS"--PART II.
The King's Task
THE COMPREHENSION OF PRIVATE COOPER
The Necessitarian
STEAM TACTICS
Kaspar's Song in "Varda"
"WIRELESS"
Song of the Old Guard
THE ARMY OF A DREAM--PART I.
THE ARMY OF A DREAM--PART II.
The Return of the Children
"THEY"
From Lyden's "Irenius"
MRS. BATHURST
"Our Fathers Also"
BELOW THE MILL DAM
THE CAPTIVE
FROM THE MASJID-AL-AQSA OF SAYYID AHMED (WAHABI)
Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining He answered his name at the muster and stood to the chaining. When the twin anklets were nipped on the leg-bars that held them, He brotherly greeted the armourers stooping to weld them. Ere the sad dust of the marshalled feet of the chain-gang swallowed him, Observing him nobly at ease, I alighted and followed him. Thus we had speech by the way, but not touching his sorrow Rather his red Yesterday and his regal To-morrow, Wherein he statelily moved to the clink of his chains unregarded, Nowise abashed but contented to drink of the potion awarded. Saluting aloofly his Fate, he made swift with his story; And the words of his mouth were as slaves spreading carpets of glory Embroidered with names of the Djinns--a miraculous weavi