One Viceroy Resigns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Lord Dufferin to Lord LansdowneA
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So here's your Empire No more wine thenB
GoodC
We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars awayD
You'll know that fat old fellow with the knifeE
He keeps the Name Book talks in English tooF
And almost thinks himself the GovernmentG
O Youth Youth Youth Forgive me you're so youngH
Forty from sixty twenty years of workI
And power to back the working Ay def miJ
You want to know you want to see to touchK
And by your lights to act It's naturalL
I wonder can I help you Let me tryM
You saw what did you see from Bombay eastN
Enough to frighten any one but meJ
Neat that It frightened Me in Eighty FourO
You shouldn't take a man from CanadaP
And bid him smoke in powder magazinesQ
Nor with a Reputation such as BahR
That ghost has haunted me for twenty yearsS
My Reputation now full blown Your faultT
Yours with your stories of the strife at HomeU
Who's up who's down who leads and who is ledV
One reads so much one hears so little hereW
Well now's your turn of exile I go backX
To Rome and leisure All roads lead to RomeU
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Or books the refuge of the destituteY
When you that brings me back to India SeeJ
Start clear I couldn't Egypt served my turnZ
You'll never plumb the Oriental mindA2
And if you did it isn't worth the toilB2
Think of a sleek French priest in CanadaP
Divide by twenty half breeds MultiplyM
By twice the Sphinx's silence There's your EastN
And you're as wise as ever So am IM
Accept on trust and work in darkness strikeC2
At venture stumble forward make your markD2
It's chalk on granite then thank God no flameE2
Leaps from the rock to shrivel mark and manF2
I'm clear my mark is made Three months of droughtG2
Had ruined much It rained and washed awayD
The specks that might have gathered on my NameE2
I took a country twice the size of FranceH2
And shuttered up one doorway in the NorthI2
I stand by those You'll find that both will payD
I pledged my Name on both they're yours to nightJ2
Hold to them they hold fame enough for twoF
I'm old but I shall live till Burma paysK2
Men there not German traders Crsthw te knowsL2
You'll find it in my papers For the NorthI2
Guns always quietly but always gunsM2
You've seen your Council Yes they'll try to ruleN2
And prize their Reputations Have you metO2
A grim lay reader with a taste for coinsP2
And faith in Sin most men withhold from GodQ2
He's gone to England R p n knew his gripR2
And kicked A Council always has its H pesP2
They look for nothing from the West but DeathS2
Or Bath or Bournemouth Here's their groundT2
They fightJ2
Until the middle classes take them backX
One of ten millions plus a C S IM
Or drop in harness Legion of the LostU2
Not altogether earnest narrow menB
But chiefly earnest and they'll do your workI
And end by writing letters to the TimesP2
Shall I write letters answering H nt r fawnV2
With R p n on the Yorkshire grocers UghW2
They have their Reputations Look to oneX2
I work with him the smallest of them allY2
White haired red faced who sat the plunging horseP2
Out in the garden He's your right hand manF2
And dreams of tilting W ls y from the throneZ2
But while he dreams gives work we cannot buyM
He has his Reputation wants the LordsP2
By way of Frontier Roads Meantime I thinkA3
He values very much the hand that fallsP2
Upon his shoulder at the Council tableL
Hates cats and knows his business which is yoursP2
Your business twice a hundered million soulsP2
Your business I could tell you what I didB3
Some nights of Eighty Five at Simla worthC3
A Kingdom's ransom When a big ship drivesP2
God knows to what new reef the man at the wheeF
Prays with the passengers They lose their livesP2
Or rescued go their way but he's no manF2
To take his trick at the wheel again that's worseP2
Than drowning Well a galled Mashobra muleN2
You'll see Mashobra passed me on the MallY2
And I was some fool's wife and ducked and bowedD3
To show the others I would stop and speakE3
Then the mule fell three galls a hund breadth eachF3
Behind the withers Mrs WhatsisnameE2
Leers at the mule and me by turns thweet thoulY2
quot How could they make him carry such a load quotD3
I saw it isn't often I dream dreamsP2
More than the mule that minute smoke and flameE2
From Simla to the haze below That's weakE3
You're younger You'll dream dreams before you've doneX2
You've youth that's one good workmen that means twoF
Fair chances in your favor Fate's the thirdD3
I know what I did Do you ask me quot Preach quotD3
I answer by my past or else go backX
To platitudes of rule or take you thusP2
In confidence and say quot You know the trickG3
You've governed Canada You know You know quotD3
And all the while commend you to Fate's handD3
Here at the top on loses sight o' GodD3
Commend you then to something more than youF
The Other People's blunders andD3
that's allY2
I'd agonize to serve you if I couldD3
It's incommunicable like the castD3
That drops the tackle with the gut adryW
Too much too little there's your salmon lostD3
And so I tell you nothing with you luckH3
And wonder how I wonder for your sakeI3
And triumph for my own You're young you're youngH
You hold to half a hundred ShibbolethsP2
I'm old I followed Power to the lastD3
Gave her my best and Power followed MeE2
It's worth it on my sould I'm speaking plainJ3
Here by the claret glasses worth it allY2
I gave no matter what I gave I winK3
I know I win Mine's work good work that livesP2
A country twice the size of France the NorthI2
Safeguarded That's my record sink the restD3
And better if you can The Rains may serveL3
Rupees may rise three pence will give you FameE2
It's rash to hope for sixpence If they riseP2
Get guns more guns and lift the salt taxP2
OhM3
I told you what the Congress meant or thoughtD3
I'll answer nothing Half a year will proveN3
The full extent of time and thought you'll spareW
To Congress Ask a Lady Doctor onceP2
How little Begums see the light deduceP2
Thence how the True Reformer's child is bornO3
It's interesting curious and vileY2
I told the Turk he was a gentlmanO3
I told the Russian that his Tartar veinsP2
Bled pure Parisian ichor and he purredD3
The Congress doesn't purr I think it swearsP2
You're young you'll swear to ere you've reached the endD3
The End God help you if there be a GodD3
There must be one to startle Gl dst ne's soulY2
In that new land where all the wires are cutD3
And Cr ss snores anthems on the asphodelY2
God help you And I'd help you if I couldD3
But that's beyond me Yes your speech was crudeD3
Sound claret after olives yours and mineO3
But Medoc slips into vin ordinaireW
I'll drink my first at Genoa to your healthP3
Raise it to Hock You'll never catch my styleY2
And after all the middle classes gripR2
The middle class for Brompton talk Earl's CourtD3
Perhaps you're right I'll see you in the TimesP2
A quarter column of eye searing printD3
A leader once a quarter then a warW
The Strand abellow through the fog quot Defeat quotD3
quot 'Orrible slaughter quot While you lie awakeI3
And wonder Oh you'll wonder ere you're freeW
I wonder now The four years slide awayF
So fast so fast and leave me here aloneO3
R y C lv n L l R b rts B ck the restD3
Princes and Powers of Darkness troops and trainsP2
I cannot sleep in trains land piled on landD3
Whitewash and weariness red rockets dustD3
White snows that mocked me palaces with draughtsP2
And W stl nd with the drafts he couldn't payF
Poor W ls n reading his obituaryW
Before he died and H pe the man with bonesP2
And A tch s n a dripping mackintoshQ3
At Council in the Rains his grating quot Sirrr quotD3
Half drowned by H nt r's silky quot Bat my lahnd quotD3
Hunterian always M rsh l spinning platesP2
Or standing on his head the Rent Bill's roarW
A hundred thousand speeches must red clothR3
And Smiths thrice happy if I call them JonesP2
I can't remember half their names or reinedD3
My pony on the Mall to greet their wivesP2
More traW

Rudyard Kipling



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