John Kendall (dum-dum) Hear Poems

• 1. Valediction To The Ss. 'arabia,' When Returning With Her Passengers From The Delhi Durbar
  Now the busy screw is churning,
  Now the horrid sirens blow;
  Now are India's guests returning
  Home from India's Greatest Show;
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• 2. Marie
  In Several Keys
  
  
  We hear the opening refrain,
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• 3. Nocturne Written In An Indian Garden
  'Where ignorance is bliss,
  'Tis folly to be wise.'
  
  
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• 4. The Story Of Rud
  Once for a tight little Island, fonder of ha'pence than kicks,
  Rud., a maker of verses, sang of an Empire of Bricks,
  Sang of the Sons of that Empire - told them they came of the Blood -
  Rubbing it under their noses. Read ye the Story of Rud!
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• 5. Song Of Bells
  Allons! Allons! Tra-la-la! Hear my Bellata!
  Why do you not return to Mandalay O soldier?
  Do you not remember the boats, and the paddles as they chunked outside the boats?
  Do you not remember the elephants, the mighty elephants, strong, mysterious, impalpable (no, not impalpable), pachydermatous, and the extraordinary accuracy with which they succeeded in balancing trees or parts of trees, branches, logs, beams, planks, ... etc., ... with their trunks (the beams carefully supported at their centre of gravity, the logs carefully supported at their centre of gravity, the elephants without a smile at their centre of gravity)
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• 6. Adam
  After W. W.
  
  An adventure of the Author's, and one designed to show that grievances may be met with in the cottages of the humblest, and may take the most unexpected forms.
  
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