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Poem by Rudyard Kipling


«Barrack-Room Ballads». 41. “The Service Man.” Prelude to “Service Songs” in “The Five Nations”


“TOMMY” you was when it began,
      But now that it is o’er
You shall be called The Service Man
      ’Enceforward, evermore. 
Batt’ry, brigade, flank, centre, van,
      Defaulter, Army-corps —
From first to last, The Service Man
      ’Enceforward, evermore. 
From ’Allifax to ’Industan,
      From York to Singapore —
’Orse, foot, an’ guns, The Service Man
      ’Enceforward, evermore!



Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling's other poems:
  1. The First Chantey
  2. «Limits and Renewals». 1932. 16. Song of Seventy Horses
  3. «Limits and Renewals». 1932. 9. The Coiner
  4. London Stone
  5. Fastness


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