A Bank Fraud Poem by Rudyard Kipling

A Bank Fraud

Rating: 2.8


He drank strong waters and his speech was coarse;
He purchased raiment and forbore to pay';
He stuck a trusting junior with a horse,
And won gymkhanas in a doubtful way.
Then 'twixt a vice and folly, turned aside
To do good deeds and straight to cloak them, lied.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Captain Herbert Poetry 27 April 2014

Straight and direct in message. Like

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Brian Jani 28 April 2014

You surely know how to wrote, I like each and every poem of yours

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your father 11 June 2019

Nice poems

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Ratnakar Mandlik 18 November 2020

Wonderful depiction of the mental state of the fraudster. Well deserved classic poem of the day.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 18 November 2020

Ah, little old-fashioned language, but still very nice to read it again, A Bank Fraud, what a time ago, now other forms of bank fraud are emerging. Congratulations on choosing the classic poem of the day.5 Stars.

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Mahtab Bangalee 18 November 2020

Then 'twixt a vice and folly, turned aside To do good deeds and straight to cloak them, lied. /// there many mystery are hidden in the good deeds of a fraud, a liar; maybe these good deeds are trap of virtuous lives destruction; so there are no need to be happy or to do praise if we find any good deed of a by born liar or fraud! rather it needs to keep on observation!

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Adeeb Alfateh 18 November 2020

Then 'twixt a vice and folly, turned aside To do good deeds and straight to cloak them, lied. /// to do good deeds need to be good minded

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Edward Kofi Louis 18 November 2020

Muse of the man! ! ! Action and reaction. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Khairul Ahsan 18 November 2020

The same or similar story continues till today.

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Deluke Muwanigwa 18 November 2020

A modern Robin Hood reads like

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