Beast and Man in India. 2. The Oxen Written for John Lockwood Kipling's Between the waving tufts of jungle-grass, Up from the river as the twilight falls, Across the dust-beclouded plain they pass On to the village walls. Great is the sword and mighty is the pen, But over all the labouring ploughman's blade-- For on its oxen and its husbandmen An Empire's strength is laid. |
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