"What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?" Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British poet. Puck of Pook's Hill (l. 1-3). . .
Rudyard Kipling; Complete Verse; Definitive Edition. (1989) Doubleday. |
"Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:" Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British poet. Puck of Pook's Hill (l. 1-4). . .
Rudyard Kipling; Complete Verse; Definitive Edition. (1989) Doubleday. |
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