The Project Gutenberg EBook of Songs from Books, by Rudyard KiplingThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Songs from BooksAuthor: Rudyard KiplingRelease Date: April 3, 2005 [EBook #15529]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS FROM BOOKS ***Produced by Paul Murray, S.R. Ellison and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.SONGS FROM BOOKSBYRUDYARD KIPLINGMACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITEDST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON1914COPYRIGHTAll rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the ScandinavianFirst Edition October 1913Reprinted October (twice), November 1913, 1914PREFACEI have collected in this volume practically all the verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books. In severalcases where only a few lines of verse were originally used, I have given in full the song, etc., from which they weretaken.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, The Cities rise again.This season's Daffodil, She never hears,What change, what chance, what chill, Cut down last year's:But with bold ...
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