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Poem by Rudyard Kipling


To Motorists


  (Herrick)

SINCE ye distemper and defile
Sweet Herè by the measured mile,
Nor aught on jocund highways heed
Except the evidence of speed;
And bear about your dreadful task
Faces beshrouded ’neath a mask;
Great goblin eyes and gluey hands
And souls enslaved to gears and bands;
Here shall no graver curse be said
Than, though y’are quick, that ye are dead!



Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling's other poems:
  1. The First Chantey
  2. Ulster
  3. Cuckoo Song
  4. The Declaration of London
  5. Tarrant Moss


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