The Stoddard Library, Vol. 8: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment With the World's Great Writers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Stoddard, John L.

9781331224402: The Stoddard Library, Vol. 8: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment With the World's Great Writers (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Stoddard Library, Vol. 8: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment With the World's Great Writers

Kipling is one' of the most powerful writers of our time. His stories are graphic and thrilling; his poems are stirring as bugle-notes.

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Excerpt from The Stoddard Library, Vol. 8: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment With the World's Great Writers

Rudyard Kipling. Born in Bombay, India, December 30, 1865. Author of: "Plain Tales from the Hills," "Soldiers Three," "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Mine Own People," "Life's Handicap," "Many Inventions," "The Jungle Books," "The Story of the Gadsbys," "The Light that Failed," "The Naulahka," "Captains Courageous," "Departmental and Other Ditties," "Barrack-room Ballads," "The Seven Seas."

Kipling is one of the most powerful writers of our time. His stories are graphic and thrilling; his poems are stirring as bugle-notes.

Mandalay

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', an' I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, an' 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 their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay?
O the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

'Er petticut was yaller an' 'er little cap was green,
An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat - jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen,
An' I seed her fust a-smokm' of a whackin' white cheroot,
An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot:
Bloomin' idol made o' mud -
Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd -

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.