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Poem by Rudyard Kipling


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The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow –
They beg for coffee and sugar; they go where the white men go.
The People of the Western Ice, they learn to steal and fight;
They sell their furs to the trading-post: they sell their souls to the white.
The People of the Southern Ice, they trade with the whaler’s crew;
Their women have many ribbons, but their tents are torn and few.
But the People of the Elder Ice, beyond the white man’s ken –
Their spears are made of the narwhal-horn, and they are the last of the Men!



Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling's other poems:
  1. The First Chantey
  2. Tarrant Moss
  3. London Stone
  4. The Cursing of Stephen
  5. Fastness


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